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Yowch, that's a beaut!

 

A nicely toned acquisition this week and an MS67 to boot. I need to get it under a microscope since the toning can hide a lot of sins. But I like the color and the grade.

 

This 1919 Standing Liberty Quarter was posted before (#21698), but I like these photos better.

 

Nice Stone Mountain. My two cents - if you need a microscope to detect hits on a half dollar, even on a toned example, the hits are too small to be relevant.

 

Actually studying dies, die cracks, DDO/DDR, and other issues. I am getting old enough and shaky enough that using a microscope is just easier.

However, I appreciate your thinking I am much younger. My wife reminded me the other day that thirteen people died in our county last month and nine of them were younger than we are. Time marches on.

 

Looks like a Rainbow, This is a really coool toned coin.

 

Type set acquisition. PCGS MS65, seller photos.

 

Gorgeous.

 

Thanks! You might be surprised how hard it is to find nice, double sided Washington quarter toners. I had to look a long time to find this one.

 

1931-D Lincoln, new photos.

 

I think a nice 31-D is tougher to find than the 31-S. Nice one!

 

Just when you thought it was safe to go outside this article appeared...….

For those of you who know or remember physics much better than I do here is one of the definitive articles on just how toning occurs.

http://jhonecash.com/research/toning_physics.asp

Even if this is too much, it lets you know toning is a little more technical than you thought. Doug Kurz put together a Morgan toned collection that was the best ever seen and when it went up for auction the prices realized were astounding. You can look it up on the PCGS Set Registry as the Sunnywood Collection. https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/alltimeset/7520

 

Well I haven't pull this out of the vault for a while and I gasp each time ...