Dug out of an album at a flea market.

[KeyMan64]

You never know what you might find. I grabbed a few pleasantly toned

Jefferson Nickels and Roosevelt Dimes as well but when I got them home

and under better light I realized they had a few too many hits for my taste

so they went into the wasted money pile. :Funny;

 

But this Mercury Dime passed the test and had a glamour shot taken.

I slightly overexposed a couple of areas on the coin and with the photos

it looks like rub but in hand it does not. For as dark as the coin is, it

has plenty of flashy luster. For $8 I won't complain too much. Not

sure if it is worth slabbing but maybe one day. The long diagonal line

across the obverse is a toning line/break, not a scratch.

 

[clarkbar04]

Very nice, especially or 8 bucks.

[jerseycat10]

For 8 bucks, that's a hell of a coin!

[SkyMan]

Sweet pickup, PARTICULARLY for $8!

[cpm9ball]

You never know what you might find. I grabbed a few pleasantly toned

Jefferson Nickels and Roosevelt Dimes as well but when I got them home

and under better light I realized they had a few too many hits for my taste

so they went into the wasted money pile. :Funny;

 

But this Mercury Dime passed the test and had a glamour shot taken.

I slightly overexposed a couple of areas on the coin and with the photos

it looks like rub but in hand it does not. For as dark as the coin is, it

has plenty of flashy luster. For $8 I won't complain too much. Not

sure if it is worth slabbing but maybe one day. The long diagonal line

across the obverse is a toning line/break, not a scratch.

 

 

 

Chris

[Dimeman]

Nice Dime!

[Coinbuf]

Very nice, safe from the wasted money pile for sure.

[bsshog40]

Very nice looking dime and pickup!

[Walkerfan]

I like it. It looks like blue marble.

[TonerGuy]

Nice !

[RWB]

Nice coin. Sometimes albums work miracles.

 

[johnny9434]

nice score, congrats

[jpcienkus]

The long diagonal line

across the obverse is a toning line/break, not a scratch.

 

 

Very nice looking coin.

 

So how does a toning line/break occur? Wouldn't there need to be a disturbance in the surface for that to happen? And for it to happen in a line like this, didn't something need to be dragged across the surface?

 

I'm NOT trying to disparage the coin. As I said, I really like it. I just want to learn, so I asked some questions.

[KeyMan64]

The long diagonal line

across the obverse is a toning line/break, not a scratch.

 

 

Very nice looking coin.

 

So how does a toning line/break occur? Wouldn't there need to be a disturbance in the surface for that to happen? And for it to happen in a line like this, didn't something need to be dragged across the surface?

 

I'm NOT trying to disparage the coin. As I said, I really like it. I just want to learn, so I asked some questions.

 

Thanks everyone for the comments!

 

As for the loooong line, I have seen some strange toning lines or interruptions...BUT in this case, I think what happened is that a piece of plastic or something "kinda scratched" across the surface of the coin. In this case I have looked at it with a 20x and there is ZERO damage to the metal so the "scratch" likely just did enough to mess up the toning. That is my best honest guess. Good question for sure.

 

In other cases, some toning lines can happen due to differences in metal content, paper or cello or plastic laying across a coin...allowing toned patterns. Another thing I have seen is where a coin is in a 2x2 but there is a scratch across the 2x2 plastic and there has been toning along the line if scratched plastic too.

[rrantique]

Nice one.