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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 686380, member: 112&quot;]Oh I believe everyone would prefer the original Mike. But if you don&#039;t know that it isn&#039;t original - then how can it matter ? </p><p><br /></p><p>And that is entirely the point - there is no toned coin out there that you can KNOW is original. Not unless you have owned it since it was minted, or at the very least, owned it since it did not have any toning.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Well, that&#039;s the problem isn&#039;t it ? As far as you know - it is supposition, not fact.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since you are supposing anyway, let&#039;s suppose this. Say next week that somebody comes up with a way to definitively say what is AT and what is NT. You have all of your toned coins examined. Every single one of the turns out to be AT. Are you going to like any, or even all of them, less than you did the day before ?</p><p><br /></p><p>Now let&#039;s make it just a little bit tougher. We pretty much know that toning is caused by various environmental gases and the exposure of coins to those gases over a period of time. Usually that period is rather lengthy. </p><p><br /></p><p>But a coin doctor has found a way to take an un-toned coin, expose to those very same gases, and have that coin tone to be pretty much identical to the one that took decades to tone. Other than the amount of time it took - there is no difference.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now next week somebody finds a way to tell how it took for a coin to tone. And you have all of your coins tested. Every single one comes up that it took a month.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now here&#039;s the problem, sometimes, sometimes under just the right conditions, natural toning occurs very quickly. So there is a chance that your coins toned naturally - and there is a chance that it is AT.</p><p><br /></p><p>Does it matter now ?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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