Burks Posted November 30, 2006 Report Share Posted November 30, 2006 I recently purchased this nickel off Ebay. It was listed as "SMS Toned Nickel". For a few bucks I went for it. The fiels are highly reflective and it looks like some cameo on the obverse. Is this toning NT or AT? I can't even come close to deciding. Will try to get a decent shot of the reverse tonight. Need to find my key to the lock box. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v154/burks/DSC04180.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
28Plain Posted November 30, 2006 Report Share Posted November 30, 2006 On my monitor it looks like regular album toning to me. Nice colors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccg Posted November 30, 2006 Report Share Posted November 30, 2006 Looks like what 'd call semi-natural - natural because it was not intentional, but due to storage issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotten Rodney Posted December 1, 2006 Report Share Posted December 1, 2006 I concur with ccq. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burks Posted December 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2006 Cool. I've just never seen a "wave" like toning before. Then again I've never really payed any attention to SMS sets either. Thanks for the replies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just carl Posted December 2, 2006 Report Share Posted December 2, 2006 Not real good image to go by but such overtoning is usually a sign of natural toning. Not many people go that much overboard in AT. Neet looking coin. How much was it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vfox Posted December 5, 2006 Report Share Posted December 5, 2006 It looks natural to me, but can be reproduced with certain chemicals. I've never tried to tone nickel before personally, maybe I'll toss a nickel into the vat at school to try it out, but this look is easily obtained with silver, coppers a little trickier....very reactive. Meh, nice natural coin to me though, although maybe a storage issue like mentioned above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burks Posted December 5, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2006 Neet looking coin. How much was it? $2. The seller's image was basically a very blurry 2x2 with TONED written on it real big. The image was darkened to really show off the colors. If I left it "as is" the colors look very light. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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