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Here are my two rainbow toned beauties. I picked both up early this month and they've inspired a sub area of collecting. I'm now going to be watching for deals on these types of coins. The first is a 1973 RCMP silver dollar, I picked up from a Canadian ebay seller for $30 shipped. I apologize for the bad picks: done with my iPhone. The second is a 1936 silver dollar: picked at the Edmonton coin show from pokermandude. Matt was kind enough to give a discount and agree to my sons offer to trade 2 $10 superman coins, a member from another was holding for me. The other member had picked them up from his post office shortly after release. Now I'd be too shy to even suggest such a trade. However, my son spotted the coin and was quite taken with it. I looked at it and knew it wasn't in the budget. So I was quite surprised and thrilled to acquire it. More so with I got it home and could let the sunlight play on it. The colors are amazing on the kings side, it's my favorite side. The blues golds and oranges and how they transition. Please keep it mind my photos do not do just to the subtles of the color. Both are truly amazing when angled in the sun just right. I've sent both to be slabbed via a friend who gets volume discounts. I'm more interested in preserving the color and authenticating the coins for the future, as opposed to sole focus of grade. I will post pics also when coins return slabbed.           I hope everyone will enjoy the images even though they don't show the true beauty. Boy it was tough adding the images. I had to progressively optimize the images 3X each before they'd upload! I'd love for others to share their own rainbow beauties in this thread. I don't mind if they're from artificial means either. I'd love to see the eye candy hiding in collections. Edited by pocket change 50
11/29/2014 4:53 pm
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I forgot to add I had a very nice time at the Edmonton show. It was very nice meeting both pokermandude and zonad. In the short time I had with each person I learned many new things. I look forward to many future chats with each person. I'm sorry I missed the beautiful display of 100 coins and countries. I wasn't aware of a second room. I was both tired and overwhelmed by the amount of tables. It was a long trip in and I was very tired and the snow storm the previous night wasn't making getting around easy.
I now know the lay of the land for next time. The amount of tables really needs half a day to properly take everything in. It was still a success for me, as I met 3 form members, one from RDF. I also gained new knowledge and saw some very interesting coins. It was a unique experience for my son & me to see and hold gold coins. I even seen my first kilo coin - the lunar snake. Wow was that ever massive and to me barely resembles a coin anymore.
It was also interesting to hear some of the sales pitches, if the seller didn't think you were informed.
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Those are nice. My only toning is US. I bought these around 1972 and they were literally hiding since then. A few months ago I happened to notice toning while flipping through my old album. I think they were probably replated and the toning came from that.   |
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[feedback][/feedback]Wow those are nice, cool that you have a group of them. One thing I find its hard to take good photos of rainbow toned coins so you can capture the color. I cannot capture what my eye sees.
The greens blues and pale pinks are very attractive. I've heard copper can turn nice colors.
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11/29/2014 11:17 pm
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have to ask you a dumb question: why do you not remove the coins from the holder when taking pictures.? Are you trying to show us plastic? or 2x2s? u will never be able to show the true color through plastic. the consensus is that if a ebay seller takes pictures through a 2x2 he is: either too lazy to remove it does NOT care on bit, or wants to hide something on the coin, |
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I don't want to get any finger prints on the coins. Many knowledgable collectors will not purchase a coin if it's not shown in some form of protection. These coins are going to be slabbed by NGC,now that's what I call behind plastic. I would imagine each person will have their preferences.
I know in the Nclt forum not fun is made of Steven Bromberg for handling raw coins on his coin show. Some people have stated they would not buy his man handled coins. I'm sure others will chime in with their veiws also.
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Quote:the consensus is that if a ebay seller takes pictures through a 2x2 he is: either too lazy to remove it does NOT care on bit, or wants to hide something on the coin NOT true. I do it all the time. If you are good with photography and lighting, it can be done. http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Mint-Error-C...301119858520To counter your point - just whose "consensus" are you stating? Your personal consensus or that of the coin community as a whole? My advice is to try to find the positive in your criticism (i.e., constructive criticism is always better than negative criticism). In my case, it has NOTHING to do with caring, being lazy or hiding something. Time is probably the most valuable commodity I have, and it would take a lot to remove coins, re-insert said coins back in their flips and relabel them - I would rather use that time taking proper photographs, inside their 2x2 flips. "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Forum Kid
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yes agreed with SPP very nice toned coins! excellent, I have a very nice 10 cent centennial fully purple toned.
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Canada
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47P7, which of these two pictures are nicer? The first is taken with bad artificial lighting, no flip. The second it taken under the sun, with flip. They are the same coin.   (Bigger pics here: https://goccf.com/t/178186 since I don't want to hijack this thread with my pics) The one on the right is more true with the colour, it's only slightly brown instead of contrasting very much like in the first one. And it still has cartwheel lustre. The flip doesn't hide anything. in fact you can see some flaws that you couldn't see in the first pic. |
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Forum Kid
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That is truly amazing, with the lighting and all. Really really interesting! thanks for sharing, and I think hands down that the second picture is nicer.
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You guys all have some pretty gorgeous toned coins !  |
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4mile: Those are some dazzling coins.... did you buy them tonned like that or did they tone like that while in your possession?
If the latter I would love to know all the details on how you stored them... absolutely stunning!!
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I love the tone on the first silver dollar. Colourful reverse toning with some rim toning on the obverse, that's nice. I have a rainbow toner too, but it's not Canadian. It's very nice on the revrese. Very hard to capture on camera though.   |
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