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Valued Member
United States
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I just watched a beautifully portrayed Walking Liberty half sold on ebay. The rainbow luster was excellent. I then went to the sellers site and was amazed at the different type and age coins all exhibiting the same type luster. How would a collector get such a collection of rainbow GEM coins and sell them at fairly cheap prices? |
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Moderator
 United States
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just guessing, I would bet the rainbow luster or toning was from the coins being heat treated. If that's the case, they would probably not be worth more than melt price.
Edited by Fuzzy317
07/26/2012 04:14 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3184 Posts |
possibly artificially toned maybe?
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
4411 Posts |
A link to the auction would be helpful.  Sounds like they may be artificially toned in which case theyre dead IMO. |
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Valued Member
 United States
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
4411 Posts |
Can you post the item number
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Valued Member
United States
225 Posts |
160845692525. The auction is over. The seller has numerous examples though. *** Edited by Staff to add link ***
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Moderator
United States
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I am sticking with heat treated. On other items, you can almost see marks of how they were held in the flame. And toning on both sides of a coin rarely match like theirs do. Edited by Fuzzy317
07/26/2012 07:01 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
5854 Posts |
A lot of the coins are artificially toned.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
4411 Posts |
definitely some heat or chemical treatment going on there. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
759 Posts |
Ummm, everybody, it's kind of important to read the descriptions:
"ARTIFICIALLY TONED BY ANODIZING"
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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As this example is not showing the vibrant colors do you think it is natural toning or artificial?  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Ha, look at the high premium he's trying to sell them for.
Wow...
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New Member
United States
36 Posts |
He's ruined what would be some otherwise really nice coins. But I guess it's all about the money.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1151 Posts |
There's a bunch of sellers on ebay that do this. Thankfully, they don't do it to high valued coins, but I agree, the markup definitely isn't worth it. |
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Posted 07/26/2012 04:30 am
