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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tmoneyeagles, post: 915495, member: 17557&quot;]<p style="text-align: center"><font size="4"><span style="color: Purple">Introduction</span></font></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve always had a sweet tooth for toned coins. In my younger days of collecting I always dreamed how nice it would be to own a toned coin, not just some small crescent toning on a cheap Morgan Dollar, but real nice toning, something that goes around the coin, that flows with different colors throughout, and has excellent eye appeal. Over time I learned how to obtain nicer coins, buy some lower end coins, make what I call a small coin army, and sell them all at once. It fills my craving for coins, but also gives me an opportunity to get a lot of my money back at one period of time in the future, and combined with money I have at that current time, I have enough for really nice coins. I&#039;ve bought many nice coins, considering my age and financial stage, and a lot of them were just normal coins, nice, but normal blast white, straight outta the mint color coins. </p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: Purple"><font size="4">The Process</font></span></p><p><br /></p><p>Now that I can afford the higher end coins, I started searching for them. I search through Heritage and eBay, and occasionally Teletrade and DLRC. I normally find what I want, on eBay though, and eBay is more convenient at the moment. The past month or so, I&#039;ve just had the urge to buy something, and I was thinking along the lines of a toned MS65 Morgan Dollar. My dream a while back was to own a proof Indian Cent, and I never got it. The one I was going to buy was at $695 I believe, it was a PCGS PR66BN, with beautiful pruple toning on the obverse, and a lovely shade of orange on the reverse. I believe the day I showed it to Charmy, to see what she thought, it sold. I would have so bought that coin, not a single spot on it, and it was the finest example of a proof Indian in my many months of searching. After that happened I just lost interest in the proof Indian, and it is on the back burner for now. I passed on a lot of toned coins since then, lovely toning, but I haven&#039;t really agreed with the grades, and I&#039;m not going to buy an overgraded, just for the toning, I want a PQ or near PQ coin, with toning, not one or the other.</p><p><br /></p><p>As many of you know I&#039;ve done a series called Coin Outta The Vault, well heck, all-uv-ya&#039; should know by now, this thread is part 19 of the series! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I&#039;ve discussed where the coins came from, how they got to me, and posted pictures of the coin. Recently I&#039;ve been lacking with the series due to school, which is over now, but my health is not good again with my current problems with me knee, and I&#039;m currently resting up for surgery. I brought a few new threads of the series recently, and will continue to make new threads, I probably have enough coins for 100+ Coin Outta The Vaults <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Back to the process of the buying (of these still unknown to you) coins.</p><p>I&#039;ve always loved French coins, and I think the design used in 1898-1920 for the 2 Franc, 1 Franc, and 50 Centimes (in silver) was absolutely beautiful. I think it may have even influenced our own Walking Liberty Half Dollar. I thought for grins, I should buy some of these coins, so I picked up two of them raw, a 1918 1 and 2 Franc set from a seller on eBay. I thought, boy, these would look great toned wouldn&#039;t they? And here is where it all started!</p><p>I also realized that toned world coins, can really have lower premiums than toned U.S. coins such as the Morgan Dollar. People know that I have a habit of wanting to make a lot of things perfect to the best of my ability, and I quickly realized that I may not be able to make a United States toned coin set with the perfection that somebody with an actual income and money to spare from that income might be able to have. But what I did realize is that I do LOVE world coins, and I want to learn about them, and the designs, well, they are right up there with U.S. coins. Instead of trying to do something, like matching Paul coin for coin, tone-wise, why not, do something different. Buy a series that is familiar but a lot of people aren&#039;t hard-core collectors with, and to put a cherry on top, have them all be toned and graded.</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4"><span style="color: Purple"><p style="text-align: center">The Coins</p><p></span></font></p><p><br /></p><p>I went with my realizations and just did it. I bought three French 50 Centimes coins, all graded by NGC, and all eloquently toned.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first one I bought for a total of $34.95.</p><p>Here are the seller&#039;s pics.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i605.photobucket.com/albums/tt136/tmoneyagles_coins/BudiWmkKGrHqNiEEv10ECBtBMcsNFYyg_12.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i605.photobucket.com/albums/tt136/tmoneyagles_coins/BudiZjgB2kKGrHqZiwEv10EedbBMcseoTEg.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i605.photobucket.com/albums/tt136/tmoneyagles_coins/BudicB2kKGrHqVhMEv10CqF5BMcstNEig_1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>No judging by these photos I was thinking that this coin was probably going to be darker in hand, and I&#039;m glad I was wrong. Here are MY photos. This coin is killer!</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i605.photobucket.com/albums/tt136/tmoneyagles_coins/191950CentimesNGCMS65.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The second one and third one I bought were from a seller known as shawneecoins, one of eBay&#039;s finest dealers in toned coins. The total for both of these coins with shipping was $97.88.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coin number one - $39.95 </p><p><br /></p><p>Here are the seller&#039;s photos, which are great, by the way.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i605.photobucket.com/albums/tt136/tmoneyagles_coins/1960g.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i605.photobucket.com/albums/tt136/tmoneyagles_coins/1960a.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i605.photobucket.com/albums/tt136/tmoneyagles_coins/1960b.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here are my photos of the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i605.photobucket.com/albums/tt136/tmoneyagles_coins/191550CentimesNGCMS65.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Coin number two- $49.95</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i605.photobucket.com/albums/tt136/tmoneyagles_coins/1959g.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i605.photobucket.com/albums/tt136/tmoneyagles_coins/1959b.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here are my photos of the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i605.photobucket.com/albums/tt136/tmoneyagles_coins/1913ObvBright-horz.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4"><span style="color: Purple"><p style="text-align: center">Closing</p><p></span></font></p><p><br /></p><p>I think these coins will be a great series for me to collect, and putting together a very eye appealing set, with brilliant luster and fantastic toning on each one will be a challenge but it will be easier to do that than buy a whole set of toned Morgans. I&#039;ll leave that to Paul. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I think I finally found one thing I can focus on, and who would&#039;ve thought it would be a world coin?</p><p>I guess my French heritage is catching up to me...hope that German heritage doesn&#039;t kick in any time soon, their coins aren&#039;t half as nice. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for reading![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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