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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bruthajoe, post: 4944149, member: 108656&quot;]Well I believe it meets at least 3 criteria for being natural.</p><p>1. It has gradient color shifts</p><p>2. Toning is translucent and does not mask luster.</p><p>3. The coin contains silver</p><p>&nbsp; There are the negatives now.</p><p>1. It is saturated</p><p>2. It&#039;s only 40% silver</p><p>3. I bought it on Ebay</p><p>&nbsp; I would never say any toning was &quot;natural&quot; being it requires some sort of exposure to a specific environment to achieve. Was it created artificially?</p><p>My observations are...</p><p>&nbsp;There are areas in the fields that show natural dark tarnish. There are areas on the coin where toning has been removed by mishandling or simply had no reaction. There is a define line of separation in the toning around the whole edge of the rim which means it could not have been fully submerged in a chemical. There are random green tarnish spots throughout. (Images below).</p><p>&nbsp;I believe some of these features would be too difficult to achieve to make it worth while to anyone. The seller seems to be exclusively into Kennedys with a variety of toned coins from very subtle to monster ungodly toning.</p><p>&nbsp;If I hadn&#039;t already read the other members comments I would have said, I believe this is not artificial. I am bias now based on the criticism and am interested to know why this coin appears AT.[ATTACH=full]1188483[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1188485[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1188486[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1188487[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1188488[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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