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The ole AT or NT quiz.....

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Lots of you are more familiar with what makes a coin look one way or the other for toning so I'd like your opinions on which you think these two coins look like and why.

 

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The Jefferson has a 'torched' look to it. Certainly not common colors for a NT nickel. For the Washington, I feel the same. It looks like someone torched the star, blackening it, with the resulting lower heat on the obverse creating the attractive blue field. These quarters haven't been out nearly long enough to have developed natural color of this magnitude.

 

Paul

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Thanks for your response Paul, which brings to mind something I forgot to put in the original post.....absolutely no heat or chemicals were used on either coin! I've had them since pre-tone so I know this for a fact.

 

I do however, see your reasoning for considering them both AT.

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Hi David - I'll stick my neck out here.

 

I think the Jeff is NT and the quarter is NT. The Jeff looks like one that has been exposed to a good dose of city air with moisture and perhaps the right medium of contact - a velvet tray, perhaps. The toning came on naturally, albeit slightly accelerated. You living in Las Vegas, however, makes me wonder how these conditions may have come together, but that's still what it makes me think of. The colors are typical for Jeffs, albeit a bit wild in the case of this paricular nickel.

 

As for the quarter, it looks like something spilled on it. Maybe you got this in change, or maybe you spit on it! 27_laughing.gif In any case, the colors are not right for copper-nickel.

 

Just my thoughts. Hoot

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both coins are "cooked" and the baker has not perfected his or her or its 27_laughing.gif craft..AS OF yet 893whatthe.gif

 

the washington was done in an oven and the nick cant say for sure but both are ugly turds in terms of eye appeal and off the wall fake colors flamed.gif and weather we know how it was done or not both are devil.gif AT devil.gif

 

also both coins are still turning and if put in holders will get darker and more ugly as time goes on

 

so much for my two cents worth 893blahblah.gif

 

michael

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I'll stick my neck out here...

Now where did I put that beheading axe at?

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Hoot, I do like the way you think tho!

 

...potato or organic vegetable?

Nope!! Close Leo, and you're in the right area of the "house" but not quite there!

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No one missed the answer because I didn't give it!

 

BUT...if you have a spice rack, paper towels, tap water and some empty prescription bottles (or facsimile), you can do the same thing. The hard part is getting both sides to tone equally well. Haven't got that figured out yet but am getting close.

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