What do you do with AT?

I'm assuming that most of you don't buy AT... This has to be the worst purchase I have ever made. About a year ago when I had no idea about toning and AT I jumped on this proof set. Amazingly I paid over 200 dollars for it. Now it just sits around and is an eye sore to my collection. What do you do with AT coins? I'd almost be embarrassed to give these away in a contest.

 

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What makes you think those are AT?

 

+1?

 

You really think they have a shot at natural? A friend of mine who happens to be the secretary of our coin club took a look at em and she thought they were at.

 

I bought a 1955 proof set new that year; when I sold it in 1969 it looked almost identical to yours. Proofs will tone like that, so I'm not sure it's AT either.

 

Do you think that the coin doctor finished the job on the quarter, started the half dollar, got tired, and quit halfway through? I am not saying that they are not problem coins. Toning whether the result of deliberate artificial toning or as the result of improper storage can be a reason for a TPG to consider the coins questionably toned and not market acceptable. But nothing in those photos screams AT or QT. I reserve the right to change my mind if I were to see them in hand. Toning on proof coins is very hard to evaluate from photos.

 

Dip the silver pieces, replace the penny with a nice example and try to sell. The nickel looks good as is. Nothing wrong with selling dipped pieces. Or you can just leave them be. I am not fond of that toning but others may like it.

Mike

 

I think those are NT and the best evidence is the arc on the obverse of the dime. Quite possibly that's a 55 box set, and another coins, maybe the quarter, was on top of the dime, in those plastic sleeves the box sets were in from the Mint.

I've seen 55 box and some flat pack sets with similar toning on coins.

 

I agree with Paul. Those coins look mint set toned to me. Not any semblance of AT or QT IMHO. If it were AT, the tone on the Silver pieces would be more uniform, not in patches as Mint Set toning can oft times be. I'd say legitimate.

 

I wouldn't dip them. If they trouble you, then get rid of them.

I still need to find myself a 53 proof set to put up on my wall.

And Morgandude, You say mintset toning. Yes they resemble closely to it, but these proofs were not packaged in the cardboard mint sets.

 

You can get a very similar natural chemical reaction in the plastic sets as in the cardboard. We don't know where they were stored for a long time--could have been the air and moisture content of the storage area.

 

Jason, they are terrible. Sell them to me at melt.

But really, these do not scream AT to me at all.

 

Thanks for the feedback. I guess since these got the clear I can throw em on the market.

 

I think she has been sniffing too much nail polish remover.

If you paid over $200 for them, why don't you submit them to NGC and see what they say? Another $75 ain't gonna put you in the poorhouse.

Chris

 

I like Chris' idea.

 

Jason: Crack them out and submit them to PCGS. TC

 

No it wouldn't as these are selling for around $100 for the flat packs and $160 for the box set.

 

I have seen a few Proof sets toned like that, some even more toned. I don't think they're AT. I'm not sure if the holder is the cause.

 

Personally, I would cook the silver. Toss the cent and nickle in the junk box

 

Go buy a 51 proof set and melt it. I dare you.