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Message:: [QUOTE="WingedLiberty, post: 1767176, member: 26030"]Background History Discovered of Blue/Violet 1964 Kennedy Half Dollar Proof !! I found out the background information (history) on this monster toned Kennedy Half Dollar Proof on another coin board and thought I would share. This information came from the owner of Key Largo Rare Coins and was corroborated by Shane at KryptoniteComics (a former business partner of KLRC) and a current very active seller of toned coins on eBay.  About five years ago, a local newspaper in southern Florida wrote a "color story" about a local coin business called Key Largo Rare Coins (KLRC). The newspaper article led to a number of local residents to call KLRC, with requests to appraise and possibly acquire several collections of old stored (packed away) coins.  One of the collections that KLRC appraised (I guess it was around 2008) had been stored in a garage at a house in the Florida Keys for a decade or more. The coins included a large number of old proof sets (still in the original mint cello) that were wrapped in newspaper and stored in boxes (from an old move) and had been untouched for years. The woman that wanted to sell the coins wanted to raise some money for Christmas shopping.  Many of the coins inside the Mint Cello packaging had toned from the sulfur in the newspapers slowly permeating into the cello packs over a 10+ year period. Shane still has some Proof Sets from that collection some of which were very "crusty", as he put it.  So not all the coins in that box fared as well as this monster.  I thought this was interesting to find out such a rich history/background of a toner. This type of toning is the DEFINITION of NATURAL TONING. It happened very slowly, took a very long time, and was unintentional.  The owner of KLRC had kept this Proof Set in his personal collection since 2008, and he sold it on eBay about a month ago, where I paid $125 for it. I personally cut open that original cello pack proof set, releasing this gorgeous blue/violet Kennedy, put it in a safe-flip, and sent this coin into PCGS using their Secure Plus Service so it could be sniffed for illegal chemicals. It passed the sniffer and the eyes of 3 PCGS graders and came back PR67 about 2 weeks ago.  <img src="https://mindstar.com/cointalk_photos/TVBlack_1964_Kennedy_PR67.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]

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