Toned Decimals

[trout]

I bought a roll of these and one of the end coins is quite well toned.
I find it unusual to see toning on decimal Cu/Nickel coins, The Captain Cook specimen coins in the red boxes are found toned but to me this is unusual.
Anyone else have any toned Cu/Nickel coins ?



The Obverse is normal  

[robbiegal]

a lot more blues tone to be seen in the hand

1966 20c proof

[oh my florin]

That 20c is an killer. Kept in a velvet case or a envelope provided by the mint during it's time I suppose? They tend to cause spectacular toning like this.

[robbiegal]

yep
photo could be better
I might try out the Nikon on that coin

[jozk123]

Beautiful coins, excellant photography.

Joe

[autocoupler]

:agreed:

[robbiegal]

not sure if I have made any dramatic improvement - I think that I did take the pics above with the new Nikon but I was just trying out the camera for the first time
but here goes, I did 'sharpen' adjustments so not sure if I made the pics worse or not! but they do have the colours that the camera has captured when I look at them but they are brighter/whiter looking - like proofs  in the hand
anyways they are cupro-nickle
20c + the 5 c from one of my 1966 sets

these two aren't curpo-nickel but they are decimal and probably both came from the ends of the same roll
number one

number two

[trout]

Great images RG :good:
Those blue boxes didn't help to preserve the 1966 Sets one iota .
They are a better option than the crappy plastic cases the pre decimal proofs came in but the hard cases that they went to after this mintage are far better.

[robbiegal]

true but my coin dealer reckons that they can become the toned beauties of the future as well