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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It has a distinctly unnatural (and unpleasant) appearance. I'd consider this to be a damaged coin.
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Valued Member
United States
457 Posts |
Wow, that is really all I can say. Beautiful!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1018 Posts |
artificial and not attractive to me.
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Valued Member
United States
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I would say AT and not pleasing to my eye.
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Pillar of the Community
Korea, Republic Of
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Wow, that is really all I can say. Beautiful! I know it's just a matter of personal tasteā"but I disagree. Looks like AT, may be done to hide cleaning. |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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You guys are really good! This is my pocket piece that looked like it was cleaned with sandpaper. I was experimenting and toned it by crumbling up a hard boiled egg and leaving the coin in a container with the egg for ten minutes. I am hoping that after a while of carrying it it will become more mellow.
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Valued Member
United States
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Wow- 10 minutes is all it took? If it's a cleaned pocket piece, no harm in experimenting!
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South Africa
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It will mellow out, I did it with my ASE the colour became softer, the best way is to make sure it rubs in your pocket, only your morgan it will ease up |
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United States
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Oops lol. Looks like I need to go look at some actual toned coins and compare.
Mark
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'd be curious to see how the coin looks after a year of being used as a pocket piece.
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Necer as far as toning goes with this coin notice the "blotchy appearance" of the toning. Also halos around the stars and the color progression. Aside from the color the pics scream abusively cleaned. "Popular colors on Artificially and Intentionally toned coins are: Excessive Blue/Magenta/Purple/Burnt Orange hues in billowing shades that do not gradient evenly. This is created by heating nickel or by adding a sulfurous compound to the surface. You can recreate this by crushing up the yolk of a boiled egg and keeping it in a container with the coin for less than 30 minutes. It is obvious, even to the Toned Morgan Rookie. Bands of color with excessive Pink/Purple hues or colors that simply do not look natural to someone armed with the experience of seeing lots of naturally toned Morgans. Sick and pale shades of green blending with pink are a sad attempt to recreate the rare green color band but these are easily distinguishable from NT coins by focusing on the other characteristics of NT coins and just from the inconsistencies in the shade and layout of the color on the coin." Good site to start with: http://www.jhonecash.com/coins/tonedmorgans.aspPlus that 2nd pic is an assault on the eyes. LOL |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Plus that 2nd pic is an assault on the eyes. LOL @Chereepicker-Tell me how you really feel!  LOL! |
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United States
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United States
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So if you put a coin in a container with an egg yoke it changes color? Why does this happen? Is the yoke in contact with the coin or just in the same container not touching? Very interesting
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Not touching, it is artificially recreating what happens naturally. Just MUCH quicker. The buildup of silver sulfide is what causes toning on a coin and the sulfer in the egg yolk hastens the process.
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Posted 08/30/2014 10:49 pm
