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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;oval_man, post: 1033108, member: 22602&quot;]I hope no one minds if I backtrack to this image but I&#039;ve been curious about it ever since and haven&#039;t had a chance to write.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m pretty good at interpreting photographs of coins but less experienced with toners. When I first saw this image I found the color attractive and relatively consistent across the obverse surface (save for the dings and scratches, of course). I never would have guessed that, in hand, Liberty&#039;s face is &quot;charcoal approaching black.&quot; Certainly the face appears gray or grayish to me but no more—or not much more—so than, for example, parts of the field where the coin is not reflecting the source lights (such as at 9:30, noon, 2:30 and the date). In fact I would have ascribed the grayness of the face simply to the absence of these reflections, which is common in images of other denominations as well, such as the V nickel (i.e., parts of the face tend to appear darker than the field).</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a bit less color in the face than in the fields, of course, but &quot;charcoal approaching black&quot; sounds extreme and has me doubting my own eyes. What would be the telltale signs distinguishing charcoal toning from the ordinary results of lighting? Thanks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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