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Message:: [QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 3637579, member: 101855"]The claim was my piece had artificial toning. During this period, the grading services personnel were not familiar with early copper. They pounded the heck out of the coins that were sent them. In those days, if they refused to grade your coin, it came back in a flip (a.k.a. "body bag") and you got nothing for your grading fee, even if the coin was rare and genuine. On mistake that collectors make is to assume that the people do the grading at the services are all experts in every series and that their opinions are infallible. They aren’t. Some them might know about Morgan Dollars, gold or modern coins. Those same people might not be as competent when it comes the early copper or silver. The services sometimes acknowledge this in a way. They sometimes hire outside experts to grade tokens, foreign coins and ancients. Quit often the opinions rendered by those experts are better than some of the work those companies perform for the more mainstream U.S. coins. Here is a “fixed” (brightened) photo of that 1794 cent. I sold this piece years ago. [ATTACH=full]976222[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]