Nope.
THAT is the key point ! Knowledgeable coin doctors can reproduce natural toning perfectly because the AT process is exactly the same as the NT...
Don't have one to show ya. But you know enough about bag & textile toning to know how it happens. So use your head and think for a minute. How...
I'd say you have accurately described the issue. It's an AU coin in an MS slab ;)
It's a lot easier than you think. So is textile toning.
Precisely.
Now where was it I heard that before ?
But people in that postion will never ask.
But that's the point. People can call a coin anything they want, but unless you are the one who artificially toned the coin you cannot say with...
Yes.
Sad news indeed. He will be missed.
Then I would suggest to you that you have seen quite a few AT coins and didn't even know it. There are many, many AT coins out there that...
Yes it was, key word being was. ANACS has been sold numerous times over the years. And not only does today's company have new owners, they also...
Strange indeed. But they have both said in print that they would slab such coins whether they were legal to own or not.
Well maybe I was not quite clear either. The cotton bolls are not what I was talking about at all. I was talking about the grainy surface and...
Value's about $35 IMO, grade maybe F12.
Personally I would not grade it above a 65 because it lacks eye appeal to me. But I suspect PCGS said 66.
New of course. Based on my previous comments I thought that was obvious.
While there are examples of coins in any slab being crossed over to NGC or PCGS at the same grade, and sometimes even a better grade, what is...
Let them know what you'd like to see happen. For instance - you'd like to keep the coin but want it put in a new slab. I'd bet that's just what...
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