The shot below is the reverse of a half eagle I own. I had always attributed the red haze in the device crannies as jewelers rouge from an old polishing. Not something that concerns me as I don't collect my coins from that perspective..... However I have been seeing other US gold posted here that showed a similar red haze in the devices. Am I misjudging the source of this red haze on old US gold? Could it be the result of some sort of natural toning and not jewelers rouge as I had suspected?
Well that's a mystery to me. I just logged out and came back and its here..... Not real sure just what to do about that.
I'm not seeing the image from my end, either. Did you upload it to CoinTalk, or link it from another site where you'd uploaded it already?
I copied it from a conversation thread here on CT. I believe when I get home I'll take the photo again and see if I can edit in the new photo.