1896 Amazingly Toned Morgan (Must See Before You Die)

Not to me at all... Quite the opposite in fact. I specifically try to find toners for my set. To "me" a dipped coin is ruined. I'd consider a blast white Morgan more suspect than this one...

SsuperDdave, as usual is absolutely right. And I agree, a coin with double sided toning would be more suspicious to me. Most of the Morgan's I have only have toning on one side due to that side being pressed against the bag wall while the other side covered by another coin though its rarer for a coin to have the whole side toned because its rarer that another coin wasn't blocking part of it. How many coins in the 1000 coin bag do you think are right on the edge of a bag with nothing inbetween? That's a pretty small percentage per 1000.

This is how crescents happen as well, more so than albums at least. Crescents happen when another coin is blocking part of the coin contacting the bag edge. If you hold another Morgan up to crescent toning it will be a perfect match to the coin. How far the crescent comes onto the coin depends how far the other coin was covering it.

Album toning is more often than not blotchy edge toning that is quite irregular. Full siders and crescents most often come from bags.

In my opinion, if this toning could be replicated relatively easy, there would be a lot more on the market. A coins value is based on supply and demand. The more rare an item is, along with a growing pool of people wanting it will cause the price to rise.

What I've come to observe in my coin collecting time, is that the older generations as a collective seem to want that perfect blast white specimen. None of us are getting any younger and as coin collecting grows even more a younger group of people will come in.

From a long term investment point, I feel these type of coins will grow in substantial value far faster than a normal one.

As to rather this should count as a NT or AT will always be debated. (But since supply seems down based on the huge premium these bring in, the artificial toning factory should probably go ahead make more.lol)

Based on visual looks and appeal, that coin looks like garbage. They supply or here is visually appealing aged over time toned coins. That coin is over priced based on uglyniess. Lol

I don't trust that one any farther than you can throw a $1000 bag. It's conceivable that it *could* tone that way in an album, but the album pages would have to be made up of Taco Bell napkins. Not a chance that happened while in the possession of the Mint. Here's the actual link, BTW:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1896-1-PCGS...em2ecc7fd5e3




You should have seen the one Fredd did on his windowsill.

Edit: Here's Fredd's coin, and a thread that'll teach you a lot about toning:

https://goccf.com/t/85732

Okay, since everybody will probably be asleep by the time I get off work and home to post the last and finally picture. I will tell everyone the grade. It's graded MS66+.

Okay, since everybody will probably be asleep by the time I get off work and home to post the last and finally picture. I will tell everyone the grade. It's graded MS66+.

Looks like I was the first to call this one a high grade coin at MS66+ I thought it may have reached a MS67 grade, it is what the market will call a monster toned dollar. Some collectors like them others hate them, as evidenced by the comments throughout this thread. I've always liked a nicely toned Morgan myself, but to each their own. The toned coins are sure much harder to grade form a static photo, one really needs to have it in hand with a strong pinpoint lamp to see the surfaces underneath. A photo can be manipulated with color saturation and other enhancements to make it appear much more colorful than it would to the naked eye.

Nice coin by the way! (IMO).

Wanted to edit my post and add this link: http://www.jhonecash.com/coins/tonedmorgans.asp

It has a very good article on natural vs. artificially toned coins.