The Monster Toned Coin Game Thread

@Morgandude11 @Lehigh96 @Pickin and Grinin @kSigSteve the thread is back

 

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@SSG_Gonzo @thomas mozzillo @brg5658
and anyone else, let's see if we can continue the long run we had

 

As a reminder, we tend to go one coin at a time-so please no more coins for now.
I will include the one posted by @robec to make it five but after that it will be one until we finish the round.

Note: the five coins for this round start with this one on page 96:
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-monster-toned-coin-game-thread.363437/page-96#post-7889447

 

1945-S Nickel....1.9....too crusty for my liking
1963-D Cent....1.9....also crusty/circulation toning
1795 Dollar...2.5.....historical/color for the type pushes it up a bit
1965 Cent...4.8...common coin with better toning than typically seen...two-sided color is also a plus
1914-D Cent....4.4...nice color on a better date Lincoln (I personally find the 1965 more attractive color wise but that is just me)

(all of the above are my opinions...lets see what others say)

 

I'm not taking that to hard it fits perfectly in my ww2 setglad you still gave it some appreciation.

 

Glad to hear! The important thing is that it fits your set well. The scoring is just for fun (although it can get contentious at times, we try to limit that).

 

@ddddd Thank you for the info!

Personally, for me to grade a coin as a monster toner, it not only has to have monster toning, it also has to have a high technical grade for the Type and date/mm.

1945-S Nickel....1.9....too crusty for my liking
1963-D Cent....1.9....common coin in common condition
1965 Cent...5...common coin with nice two sided toning. Technically clean.
1914-D Cent... 5.3 tougher coin, tougher to find with nice toning. PCGS is much tougher on giving higher grades on BN, and the surfaces certainly looking higher than the technical grade.

I'm going to include two pictures of the more toned side of this SLQ, because you see somewhat different colors depending on how you rotate it for the camera lens. The colors are all there together, it's just the camera lens doesn't catch the toning quite as well as the human eye. In an old NGC MS66 slab.

 

@Skyman that is a fair way of scoring. I do take grade into account but I'm not as stringent. I'm willing to call a 63 common date Morgan a monster (that is probably my cut-off-although I've seen some 62s that were close-probably high end and not monster).

 

Some day I'll be able to afford such nice key date coins not just your average 1916 D merc,a whole 5 levels up^^.

 

I apologize, I mistook ddddd’s post thinking he was asking a few people to post toners. My mistake. Don’t include my coin in this round. I can post it again at the appropriate time.

 

No worries; it's been a while so why not restart things with a bang.
Yours is in play already (skyman and I already scored it).

 

1945-S Nickel -- 1.1
1963-D Cent -- 1.0
1795 Dollar -- 1.5
1965 Cent -- 5.3
1914-D Cent -- 4.5

I like colors other than grey tones.

 

This nickel seems to be congruent with your username, which is hilarious, but for the toning, I give it a 1. IMO, this type of toning actually detracts from the grade.

Finding attractively toned Peace Dollars is an expensive chore. On a different series this would score lower, but for a Peace Dollar, I give it a solid 3.2.

I'm not seeing much here, 1.5.

Having absolutely no knowledge of what the color of a rarity from 1795 should look like, or whether this color is considered original, I give it a conservative rank of 2.0

That's amazeballs, I give it a 5.7.

 

Hey @lordmarcovan how get those pictures. My coin is half as vibrant as yours but in my picture it shows that it’s barely even toned. I even tried UV lightings (color is a cool white) to bring out that blues but that didn’t work.

 

I will use a cool white light I got and i said, “It’s more vibrant in my eyes.”

 

Glad to see this one back up. Thanks @ddddd for the tag.

1945-S Nickel....1 (terminal)
1963-D Cent....1 (lacks eye appeal)
1795 Dollar...3 (favorite of the group) - I actually like this one as a 5 for originality but can't be measured same for toning using the Morgan scale)
1965 Cent...5.5 ( I bet this one is a blazer in hand with the mirrored proof fields and those neons)
1914-D Cent....5 ( first thought this was a matte proof and especially because it was posted by @robec ).

Glad to see this thread bumped and with some old but new faces that I know own some stunner coins. Let's keep it going!!!

 

@Lem E, got anything to fit this bill?

 

Let's let the five current coins keep running another day...those who posted, please give us your opinions too (of your own coin and the other four).