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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rbm86, post: 12012, member: 854&quot;]GDJMSP -- That&#039;s a nice Franklin.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the quandry:&nbsp; The colors on your Franklin were not created intentionally -- they were the result of 1950&#039;s mint set packaging.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>However, the 1986 Liberty has clearly had to be &quot;created&quot; -- if the 1986 Liberty Half $ was left in its mint packaging, it would still be blast white.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now the toning on the coin does look like the result of a &quot;natural&quot; oxidation process and not artifically &quot;cooked&quot;.&nbsp; However, I suspect that this toning was &quot;created&quot; purposely -- by purposely putting the coin in an environment which creates the toning.&nbsp; If that is the case, why would one be willing to pay $4,000 for such a coin??&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If such coins are demanding hundreds or thousands of dollars, will we be seeing tons of &quot;manufactured&quot; toned modern commem coins 5 years from now, after they were incubated in sulfur envelopes for 5 years?&nbsp; Or are these coins hard to make -- you put 20 in envelopes and only 1 or 2 come out with &quot;monster&quot; rainbows??[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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