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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Decided to try to capture the beauty of my recently acquired 1956. The coin shop had no interest in the toning and sold it to me for 35 cents. I thank them kindly because it's the most intriguing coin in my entire collection now. I took it out and tried to capture the essence of it digitally. These pics are unaltered and the same lighting was used: Image:  1956BLUE.jpg62.13 KB Image: 1956BLUE2.jpg81.75 KB Image: 1956BLUErev.jpg102.1 KB Image: 1956BLUErev1.jpg74.68 KB Image: 1956BLUErev2.jpg84.83 KB Image: 1956BLUErev3.jpg77.04 KB Image: 1956BLUErev4.jpg95.41 KB |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I hate to have to ask this, but is it really blue? (Please be kind, I'm colourblind.)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
827 Posts |
yes, blue, green, gold tones, mostly blue. Very pretty  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
533 Posts |
Nice coin! And at $.35 I think you did pretty well. Thanks for sharing!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
819 Posts |
I absolutely love it when old copper turns rainbow. *sighs happily* Thank you for sharing those pictures.
I've got several coins that have toned nicely, and I know I paid less than fifty cents for them each. They're wonderous bits of beauty that one could make a separate collection for, no doubt.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2443 Posts |
Great color to it. I always like blue lincolns.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
965 Posts |
Darn, that's completely lost on me. Guess that's why I haven't bought any toned coins.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That has to be the nicest looking blue Lincoln, I have ever seen.
Actually its the only one I have ever seen. I didn't know Lincolns toned like that.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Nice coin...I found this one while roll hunting, nothing special but I like the color. Image: tonedroosdime.jpg86.75 KB |
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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Nice coin acidic1! How about some different angles? My Lincoln looks totally different depending upon the angle of view.
Elle - I have a whole separate page in my Lincoln collection for toned cents. I have duplicates of all those, so I put them in separately. When showing my collection off, everyone spends at least a few minutes on that page alone....well...that and my error page.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Maybe I'm color blind too 'coz I don't see any blue. I see green but not blue.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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BadThad, I know that I would love to see some pictures of your toned coins! Even the ones that have been toned purposefully are pretty to look at, but the ones that have done so by accident seem so much prettier. :)
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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You could get that stuff off with a strong solution of Baking Soda and water.  Nice coins for real. Appears that a slight difference in colors front and back. Both nice. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Bad Thad, I got the dime out to get some different angles on it but to my surprise...the toning had dissipated. Image: losttone.jpg78.93 KB |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Sleaklight, thanks for that link. I knew I was red/green colourblind, but I learned alot more about it from that link than I ever learned from an optometrist. Go here: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/...s/index.htmlAnd select Protanope, move the slider a little over halfway, and welcome to my world. Sorry this got OT for a moment. Edited by Topher
10/16/2007 3:52 pm
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Posted 10/14/2007 10:06 am
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