Toned Nickels - Show 'Em Off

[MikeInFL]

[rrantique]

Nice Proof Mike

[bsshog40]

Nice Buff Mike, seen your seated dime on the toned dimes post too!!!

[Wihlborg]

 

John

[SkyMan]

[bsshog40]

Nice one skyman. I have to say, I've seen alot of beautiful coins from your collection lately!!!

[Newmismatist]

(Scratches are on the holder)

 

 

[SkyMan]

Nice one skyman. I have to say, I've seen alot of beautiful coins from your collection lately!!!

 

Thanks Bobby! It has a lot to do with Bruce imaging 60 of them recently. I normally average purchasing 1 to 2 coins a month (a lot of them quite inexpensive), so you wouldn't normally see me be posting more images than that.

 

One thing I like about coins are the stories that go along with them. The first toner I ever bought specifically as a toner (in the late '80s, I've still got it, though it's nothing spectacular by my current standards) was a PCGS rattler 1944-D Mercury in MS66FB. At the summer 2005 SF ANA show I saw this nickel. It was graded 1944-D MS66*5FS, so it just seemed a nice companion piece to get for the Merc. Who knows, maybe one of these days there'll be a nicely toned '44-D Walker in MS66 out there to be stumbled upon.

[bsshog40]

I hope I'm the one to stumble upon it, cheap!!

[jtryka]

This one was white when I put it in the Dansco over 20 years ago:

[jtryka]

This one was also white when it went into the Dansco in 1987, and this photo was taken a year or two ago. Ironically, the electric blue near the rim below Jefferson's collar seems to have spread further up his coat in the intervening years. Perhaps I'll try to take some current photos.

[jom]

jom uses an airbrush quite masterfully.

 

It's true! I use it to do my hair in the morning.

 

jom

[jom]

Well, I might as well bring out my 36-D. I hope I don't get another offer from Shamika again.

 

 

jom

[Bruceswar]

jom uses an airbrush quite masterfully.

 

It's true! I use it to do my hair in the morning.

 

jom

 

Oh so you found out the secret of the fro ....

[Wihlborg]

Jeff,

 

Here is one that was also white when I put it in a Dansco maybe 16 years ago.

 

 

I never did a thing to this coin before placing it in the album.

 

John

[Wihlborg]

Here's another buff for JOM

 

 

John

[jtryka]

Ok, here is an update photo of the 1938:

[jtryka]

and an update of the 1947-D:

[SkyMan]

Some mighty fun lookin' nickels.

[rrantique]

Sure are Sy

 

[bsshog40]

These jefferson's I'm seeing are some sure nice coins. I like that 38'.

[CarlWohlforth]

I've got a Buffalo and a Jeff, but I'll just show the Buff for now.

 

[WoodenJefferson]

Very close to original tone.

[jom]

Here's another buff for JOM

 

 

John

 

FOR me? Great....I'll expect it in the mail by the end of the week.

 

jom

[rrantique]

Nice evenly toned one Woody

 

Is it FS? looks like it.

[WoodenJefferson]

Nice evenly toned one Woody

 

Is it FS? looks like it.

 

It's raw, but I have it penciled in FS...there's no doubt (this is an extra )

[GottaLoveMS70s-migration]

As I said in another thread, I am new to all this. So please don't fall off your chairs laughing when I ask...

 

Are toned coins worth more or less?

 

And the thing I hate to ask even more, but I don't know the answer, so I will...

 

Are you doing something to those coins to make those tones?

(They are beautiful at the very least.)

I am guessing "naturally toned" coins are more valuable and tones that people have done are... less??

 

Thanks for helping to educate me!

[Wihlborg]

There are people who like toned coins and there are others that don’t. Some people who do like toned cons will pay a premium for a nicely toned coin. Usually, the nicer the color the more of a premium the coin can fetch as more collectors compete to own it.

 

It is also true that collectors will value a coin that is naturally toned, or at least has the appearance of one that is, higher then one that is obviously or appears to be artificially toned.

 

John

[GottaLoveMS70s-migration]

Thanks John.

 

I will have to keep an eye on my Silver Eagles then. I noticed one or two of them starting to tone last year. That is simply oxidation of some sort then?

 

- Ken

[Wihlborg]

You’re welcome Ken.

 

Yes, toning is a form of oxidation. Silver is a highly reactive metal and as such it tends to tone rather easily. The purer the silver the more this is so. Your silver eagles are made from almost pure silver and can tone much quicker then a silver dime or quarter would under the same conditions.

 

Nickel as a metal does not tone as easily as silver does, but ‘nickels’ are actually mostly an alloy of copper, another highly reactive metal. This is why some nickels tone as pretty as they do, but overall it is much harder to find really nicely toned nickel coinage then silver.

 

Not all coins tone in beautiful colors, in fact most don’t. The vast majority of coins that tone do so in a way that actually takes away from their eye appeal in my opinion. This is why the really nicely toned coins sell for so much, because they are rare compared to the way most coins tone.

 

John