Toned decimals just for RG

[ausjack]

Here ya go possum :angel:
SP68

SP67

[trout]

The Specimen Cooks can be found with some quite remarkable toning and I think that the plastic case they are housed in is responsible for this
Nice coins Mate :good:

[robbiegal]

far out
are they yours AJ
very nice indeed

[ausjack]

Thanks trout, I'll have to go to the markets in coffs again soon and see what they have as the last time I was there he had about half a dozen.

Yep they sure are, thanks RG

[robbiegal]

congratulations then :yahoo::wavemulticolor::sun_bespectacled::thank_you:

[ausjack]

I really like the blue one :hi:
Gives it a lot of character how the blue covers the water ripples.

[trout]

There was only about twenty of these graded after we sent ours in Mate.
Now there are 53 of them and 18 of these made SP68 .
Maybe old mate and his 20,000 put a few of these in for good measure :angel:

[ausjack]

Maybe, I noticed PP put two up the other day, a 67 & 68.

[autocoupler]

Consecutive numbers as well, so would they be worth more? :biggrin: Sorry,   no I'm not :tease: just funnin.  Very nice coins AJ

[ausjack]

Yes of course that makes them worth more auto and being MY coins inflates the price even more :laugh2:
Do ya have a spare kidney :laugh2:

[r9453]

I've got some NCLT $1 coins that have begun to tone but there is nothing very attractive about them. :scratch_one-s_head:

[trout]

I've got some NCLT $1 coins that have begun to tone but there is nothing very attractive about them. :scratch_one-s_head:

I am willing to bet that those are the ones in the open ended cardboard jobs like you get with the mint your own coin :angel:

[purplepennyhunter]

Maybe, I noticed PP put two up the other day, a 67 & 68.

Yes I picked through a dealers lot of about 40 specimens in cases, we took home 15 of the better ones that I could see through the scratched cases and sent the best 3 coins to PCGS that graded SP67 and two SP68's.

One of the specimen cases had a little note that read "15-4-70 To Leanne from Grandma and Grandpa Nicholls Not to be spent before 1-1-2000AD"

[ausjack]

Yes they're the same at coffs and the boxes are all smokey and scratched so you can hardly see the coins.

[trout]

This is a subtly toned 1977 50c and is also one of my all time favourite Decimal design.
Finding pleasantly toned copper nickel coins is tough.
The detail on the reverse is amazing :good: