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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 2117118, member: 15929&quot;]I have no idea who toned these but they happily reside in PCGS Slabs and are commonly considered by many experts to be AT. Others not so much.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]400950[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]400951[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]400952[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]400953[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Stories abound about how the Peacock hoard were ex-bank give away coins stored in sulphur rich cardboard holders in a slim plastic box in somebody&#039;s basement in Utah next to the hot water heater.</p><p><br /></p><p>All are high grade IKE&#039;s and all are or were very expensive.</p><p><br /></p><p>Supposedly, the toning process involved a plastic baggy and a can of Pam.</p><p><br /></p><p>I own the last coin, the 1971-D in MS66, and paid a pretty penny for it just so I could have one. I&#039;ve considered sending it in for SecurePlus scanning to see if there is anything that the scanner can pickup. This would answer a lot of questions but it could also cost me a fair sum of money as I don&#039;t think PCGS would reimburse me on the premium I paid.</p><p><br /></p><p>CU Thread on the coins</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=30&amp;threadid=146283&amp;highlight_key=y&amp;keyword1=%20IKE%20" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=30&amp;threadid=146283&amp;highlight_key=y&amp;keyword1=%20IKE%20" rel="nofollow">http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=30&amp;threadid=146283&amp;highlight_key=y&amp;keyword1= IKE </a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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