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<p>[QUOTE="Lehigh96, post: 1109016, member: 15309"]The story is that a dealer happened upon an estate in the Appalachian Mountains in late 2000 that contained several rolls of fantastically toned Jefferson war nickels. The coins were graded by NGC and have been known as Appalachian Jefferson ever since. They are widely considered AT by the numismatic community but they are incredibly beautiful and there is nothing about the toning in hand that screams AT.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, I don't know what you mean by treated similar to the Battle Creek collection. The Battle Creek Morgans come from the estate of a collector who lived in or near Battle Creek Michigan. The story behind these coins is documented and presented on NGC's own website (see link below).</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ngccoin.com/news/viewarticle.aspx?IDArticle=272" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ngccoin.com/news/viewarticle.aspx?IDArticle=272" rel="nofollow">http://www.ngccoin.com/news/viewarticle.aspx?IDArticle=272</a></p><p><br /></p><p>They are not widely regarded as AT in the numismatic community.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Lehigh96, post: 1109016, member: 15309"]The story is that a dealer happened upon an estate in the Appalachian Mountains in late 2000 that contained several rolls of fantastically toned Jefferson war nickels. The coins were graded by NGC and have been known as Appalachian Jefferson ever since. They are widely considered AT by the numismatic community but they are incredibly beautiful and there is nothing about the toning in hand that screams AT. However, I don't know what you mean by treated similar to the Battle Creek collection. The Battle Creek Morgans come from the estate of a collector who lived in or near Battle Creek Michigan. The story behind these coins is documented and presented on NGC's own website (see link below). [URL="http://www.ngccoin.com/news/viewarticle.aspx?IDArticle=272"]http://www.ngccoin.com/news/viewarticle.aspx?IDArticle=272[/URL] They are not widely regarded as AT in the numismatic community.[/QUOTE]
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