Post a Toned Coin

When you just cant decide!!! Aaaarrrgghhhh. God I love these things. Officially the focus of my collection going forward. Lol...unless i see something cool...lol....

 

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I’m not convinced that one wouldn’t grade. It’s not worth the grading fee but your photos actually make it appear MA.

 

Images by Bob Campbell, and I think he did an excellent job.

 

Do you own this coin?

 

I know this is the U.S. coins forum, but I don’t collect any world coins. This was a freebie in the world coin box so I picked it up when I was buying a Buffalo nickel. So this seems like a good place for it.

I really love the Art Nouveau design elements.

 

Super coins all! This one is raw and came with the holder of issue and the Stacks/Bowers Tag:

 

Another in a set of 25 artificially toned proof Roosevelts.

 

Looking at the small x next to the b on the obverse it does not look like a scratch to the metal more like in the toning...my pictures make this darker than it is. Is this a full bands?

 

seems to be better resolution pix when downloading to my laptop then uploading from laptop to here. Now to fine tune the color as the background the Merc is on should be more of a gray color...

 

Nice looking merc but not FB.

 

Thanks! What is the key? I see full separation of the bands, that is a line all the way across between the bands...

 

Stumbled on the brightness setting which was set too low and bumped it back to neutral and helped a bit. Here is the reverse again. Still no FB?

 

Not FB. Look at the middle band. It's not 100% distinct and separate.

 

Okay thanks!

 

So looking more closely at the bands had me looking at coin facts and the mint mark. Could this be an S/S RPM FS-502?

1941 S

 

There's something going on there. Not a "cherry picker" kind of guy.

 

I cannot remember if I have posted this one before, but it is a good example of what I think is NOT a toned coin. When I purchased it I had only the pictures to go on and it had a lot of appeal. But I have now had it under a microscope and determined that this probably does not fit the real definition of toning, so it is a good teaching tool.

True toning is supposed to come from thin film interference with light reflecting from a coin's surface. This film is only microns thick and should not be visible as a substance.

But what is here is thick and almost like the coin was stored with or next to something that spilled onto it and stuck like glue. The Stone Mountain coins were turned over to the association for storage and sale and storage conditions were obviously less than desirable, thus the large number of discolored coins on the market.

I am surprised that PCGS gave this one an MS64 grade and not an N grade, but I am glad they didn't because it is still a neat coin. This is an example of a DDR coin with some doubling of the two A's at the bottom of the reverse, and a good study coin.

All colored coins are not toned coins! http://www.stonemountainhalf.com/04141349_64.html