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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cannoncoins, post: 1077926, member: 28659&quot;]I have always heard, since I first started collecting some 20 years ago now, that putting decent silver coins in a Whitman album was a bad idea.&nbsp; Sure enough, I recently retrieved my old circulated Roosevelt set, and most were depressingly spotty.&nbsp; But THEN, a few years back, I purchased a type set from another collector and several them looked like the coins below- with this (I thought) attractive alternating streak toning; it gave sort of a woodgrain look to the cents (see the indian, and to a lesser degree the 09 vdb below), and on several of the silver coins it manifested itself as this really nice blue on the reverse (shown on a twenty-cent piece below); all the coins were circulated condition, F to VF+ range as opposed to AU-BU like my Roosevelt dime set- perhaps that has something to do with it? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; Also, this was one of the older Whitman cardboard folders, with the front that just has the name of the coin and not an &quot;image&quot; of it.&nbsp; </p><p><img src="http://i1178.photobucket.com/albums/x380/rcannon5/IMG_2243.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i1178.photobucket.com/albums/x380/rcannon5/IMG_2248.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i1178.photobucket.com/albums/x380/rcannon5/IMG_2262.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Have others had similar experiences with silver and copper coins in Whitman albums, and am I alone in finding these attractive?&nbsp; I decided to put these up for online auction with a larger group of coins, but there doesn&#039;t seem to be much interest and I&#039;m wondering if &quot;nice toning&quot; to other collectors really only means the wild multicolored or concentric circles you see from windowed-album toned coins.&nbsp; I guess at least they look good to <i>me</i> which may turn out to be a good thing! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks!</p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Calibri">---</font></p><p>&nbsp; <font face="Calibri">&quot;Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.&quot;</font> <i>Euripides </i></p><p>&nbsp; <font face="Calibri"><a href="http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?type=3&amp;campid=5335874456&amp;toolid=10001&amp;mpre=http%3A%2F%2Fmyworld.ebay.com%2Fcannoncoins" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?type=3&amp;campid=5335874456&amp;toolid=10001&amp;mpre=http%3A%2F%2Fmyworld.ebay.com%2Fcannoncoins" rel="nofollow">http://myworld.ebay.com/cannoncoins</a></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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