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I like it and its unique, also though coins were stored with tape like this how many were MS-64? I mean this was a pretty basic way of storage giving the few unc coins a lot of surface space too get damaged.
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Pillar of the Community
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Thanks dollar, we think alike!
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United States
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I like the look of it. I just have a question how the tape didn't damage the coin? Also, it had to have been dipped in acetone to remove residue, right? Which is perfectly fine in my eyes.
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I too think it was caused by tape in an album. The tape reside was probably removed by a dipping in an acetone bath, which shouldn't change the toning at all, just dissolve the residue (whatever was there). I've seen an album of Franklins that were striped just like this, I purchased it along with several other Whitman (I think) albums of coins, the Nickels looked horrible, but all the residue came off with a soaking in acetone. The Whitman folders had a paper page that folded over to protect the coins from touching, so if there was enough sulfur content in the paper, like the ones I had, the toning could have been on both side.
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I like it and its unique, also though coins were stored with tape like this how many were MS-64? None of them. Regardless of what created the strip, this is a Details coin and I'm flabbergasted that PCGS saw fit to slab it. |
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I can't say that I like this kind of toning. I think that it may have been caused by storage in a coin folder like the one in this thread. It has a lot of pics, but the folder is toward the bottom of the original post. https://goccf.com/t/190212 |
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Pillar of the Community
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Superdave, please elaborate on all aspects of your comment.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Good catch collector2012 that album is quite a possibility. Wish it had pics of the back though.. U can even see a dime had been turned and left a stripe
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United States
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Chances are a situation such as Coincollector2012 suggested is the culprit - you don't tape both sides of a coin. However, although I can see PCGS determining the toning as occurring via "natural" process (I agree), the character of that solid stripe across both faces doesn't meet the definition of "original" as I see it. I live with textile toners and crescents as they're Mint bag artifacts, but other outside structures which physically limit toning should be deprecated and PCGS has seemed to agree in the past.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Too bad there was tape on the coin. It might have been more even in color and worth a lot more.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Ya coop, but then it would just be an ordinary toner. Personally I love how unique it is and feel it's premium is more than without the pattern. Of coarse this is subjective but aren't all toners by nature. And if I like it better than some of my true monsters I'm sure it would bring a hefty premium. Heck, I just lost an auction for a reverse only one that sold for $250
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Put me down as one who does'nt like the look. Just one mans opinion. I bet if you re-submitted that coin another 10 times, it would come back in a body bag 9+.
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Pillar of the Community
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At fist glance my thought was it had been in a money clip made of a sacrificial metal , possibly copper.
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See this makes me love it even more. The debate of how it happened plus the extreme love/hate aspect of it. There is NO middle ground with this one Stone, I never thought about that and don't even know if that would produce this but good hypothesis nonetheless  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Intercept Shield uses this principle of a sacrificial metal barrier for their archival holders
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