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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tonedcoins, post: 659487, member: 25155&quot;]lol..... I almost thought I knew what I was talking about.... DUH!!! I guess Lehigh96 knows his stuff. </p><p><br /></p><p>The natural toning pattern for 90% silver coins is as follows:</p><p><br /></p><ol> <li>Yellow</li> <li>Magenta</li> <li>Cyan</li> </ol><p><br /></p><p>(to help remember this... just picture me yelling, &quot;YOU MY COIN!&quot;... Yellow, Magenta, Cyan) </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There can be slight variances due to conditions, but with crazy &#039;circus&#039; or &#039;crayola&#039; colors you can be comfortably sure they are fakes. The toning should also be bonded to the coin and deep within the grooves and hard to get to spots like the sides of letters. This is especially true when looking at the black type toning that is also fairly common with silver coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also the shadow effect as some say is not always correct. The &quot;shadow&quot; effect happens when the toning doesn&#039;t lay correctly because of the way the coin was struck. If a Morgans stars are not struck the correct way and have stars that are struck in a &quot;squeeze, spread on one side effect&quot; does not let the toning lay on it because of the metal content changes as it is opened and exposed, and mixed differently from the rest of the coin which gets a better toning&quot;. which gives it the &quot;shadows&quot; effect. The way the coin is struck effects the way the toning lays and developes on the coins specially on the Morgans stars...</p><p><br /></p><p>AND THE COIN BELOW IN QUESTION IS NOT BEAUTIFUL IN MY OPINION&nbsp; SORRY!!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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