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Pillar of the Community
United States
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got this yesterday from my local shop...its SO much better in hand, these pics don't quite do it justice... sweet tone!    |
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Valued Member
United States
462 Posts |
I'm shocked at that toning. The toning looks as if it's been circulated. I wonder what the coin was stored in.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4901 Posts |
I had one with similar toning as a pocket piece
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
4337 Posts |
He said he has had it for a long time and it has just sat in the open in a display glass case in his shop...i dunno...i am new at this so if you don't mind, what is so shocking?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1796 Posts |
As an avid ASE collector let me say: That is *gorgeous*. :-) Wish I had one like that. |
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Valued Member
United States
223 Posts |
Great score! I love toned ASE's. Nice silver rainbow you have there.. |
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Valued Member
United States
223 Posts |
ASE coins will tone wildly. The coin looks like its been stored in an album or in a velvet box with the reverse exposed. Really cool looking.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
21786 Posts |
Looks like mild low temperature heat treatment on a kitchen stove.
Dont't worry, it won't change the silver value. Done skillfully, it may increase the eye appeal. Not my cup of tea.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I wouldn't shy away from buying one like that, even at my dealers $4 over spot, looks nice!
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Bedrock of the Community
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Looks like mild low temperature heat treatment on a kitchen stove.
Either that or getting blasted by the sun all day long every day, but it would be weird for him to have the reverse displayed |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I was going to say it looks like heat has been applied to that coin also
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Very nice color!  Quote:
Looks like mild low temperature heat treatment on a kitchen stove So what if it has, it is just a bullion coin and a rather plain one at that even with the Walking Liberty on it. The ASE's will never have the same beauty of the original Walking Liberty half dollars. Put a BU Walking Liberty half next to one of these and you'll see how blah looking an untoned ASE really is, there is no mint luster to them. They look much better toned. That's my opinion and you have the right not to agree as my high school history teacher used to say. Ed ANA LM-3175 |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Ed:  entirely with that! Ask most folks who are interested in coins as to what is the most attractive U.S. coin design, and we all know what the majority answer will be. It comes down to only two coins, that about equal following. I couldn't make up my mind. So I have them both. |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Would that be the Morgan and the walker half Sel  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm not sure this was cooked...my guy has owned his shop for 40 years and is real old school, I dont see him cooking coins...i think its natural toned but whatever opinions are meant to abound in this forum so to each his own...i think its a bad butt eagle and for the $30 I paid anyone of us would buy it 10x over
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It doesn't take much heat to cause many natural things to start outgassing and toning silver. Cedar does it at room temp. An ASE laid open on a cedar plank will tone in a week or two. A coin displayed in a case that gets some sun will tone from the gasses released by the materials around it (wood, velvet, etc.) and the reverse may tone more because it is facing those materials. The sun itself is not the culprit, rather it is the gasses that come out of items warmed by the sun that react with the silver to tone it. While I enjoy well tones silver very much, I simply don't understand why some collectors are willing to pay multiples of a coin's intrinsic value for one that is very attractively toned. |
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