TONED COIN IMAGES

It's sad, but many researchers, dealers and long-time collectors believe that about 80% of all 20th Century silver coins and 98% of 19th Century and earlier silver coins have been cleaned or at the very least, dipped by somebody.  This is done primarily to increase a coin's value.  Today, we also have the "coin doctors" who use a variety of methods to artifially tone a coin to increase it's value, maminly to increase a coin's value.  It seem like someone is always messing with our hobby to make a buck.

Coin doctoring aside, the reasons coins tone are numerous.  If you can think of toning on coins as rust is to steel or oxidation is to aluminum, then it's a bit easier to understand.  Toning can be gorgeous or it can be really ugly, but believe it or not, all coins are susceptible to toning.  The following coin images are divided into two categories; naturally and artificially toned.  Each thumbnail image is linked to larger, slower loading image with the cause of the toning explanied if it is known.




NATURALLY TONED COINS


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1896 IHC
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1901 IHC
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1955 Lincoln
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1955 Lincoln
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1913-D Buffalo

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1937 Buffalo
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1939S Jefferson
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1961 Jefferson
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1961 Jefferson
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1962 Jefferson

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1962 Jefferson
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1964 Jefferson
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1971S Jefferson
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1943S Mercury
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1947S Roosevelt

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1930 SLQ
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1962 Washington
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1879 SL Half
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1942 WL Half
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1994 Silver Eagle

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1901 British TD
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1972 Canada Dollar
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1940 GB Penny
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Restrike Thalers



ARTIFICALLY TONED COINS


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1889 IHC
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1905 IHC
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1940 Jefferson
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1999 Washington
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1999 Washington

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2001 Washington




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