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Pillar of the Community
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Very nice!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Spectacular! I disagree with you, though, about toner haters looking away. They should be made to stare at this lovely gem and suffer until they love it!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I didn't know gold could tone like that.
I'm trying to decide if it's because of the copper in the coin.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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A stunning unique gold coin, thanks for sharing it.
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Pillar of the Community
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Darth- Great idea.
Kanga- yep it's likely the 10 percent copper in the alloy that reacts and tones.
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Very nice! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Great coin, beautiful, excellent to have in a PCGS slab as problem free, not that I see any problems!
MM is relatively sharp for a "weak MM" coin. Sometimes the C is darn near invisible. Congrats on a terrific piece for your collection!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Thanks Jaobler. This coin is ex. Scottsman and they gave it the unofficial 'Scotsman Catalogers Choice Award' for the 7/15 auction lot. Not sure if that carrys any weight but it helped me make the decision to purchase it. I will be sending it to CAC but honestly don't expect it to sticker as they are VERY tough on toned gold.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Wow, very nice! |
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United States
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Beautiful coloration on that HE, JB. It has the look of a '48-C QE I used to own, but sold along with many of my other C-mint QEs to raise some home purchase funds. I regret selling that one. The coloration looks like it had been kept in a leather pouch or purse for years - amazing look.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Old southern gold with beautiful toning.
Sweet!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Well regardless of what I said previously about not expecting this one to cac due to the color, I am happy to report that today it did. It was previously graded AU55 by NGC and did not cac. Now at AU53 PCGS it finally received a sticker. Needless to say that was not expected and I am pretty pleased! So maybe toned gold does have a chance afterall as long as the grade is fair.
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Pillar of the Community
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I read that southern gold tends to have a higher gold content and often was not even alloyed with copper due to this but used "as is". This implies there may be other impurities and may account for the tone.
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Pillar of the Community
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Jim- VERY interesting!! Thanks
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