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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 524511, member: 16510&quot;]<b>Yes, this is probably not natural toning at all!</b></p><p><br /></p><p>This coin has been doctored or hastened - if you doubt what I say let me tell you that I have myself toned coins like this artificially when trying to experiment with different things.&nbsp; By the way, at anytime that I sold or traded these type coins I have disclosed that they are artificially toned coins each time.&nbsp; It is not easy to get one like this but if you keep trying you can do it.</p><p>Regarding this dime though ask yourself,</p><p>How many other coins of this era have you seen that even come close to this one that are thought to be natural?</p><p>It is possible (barely)&nbsp; that a toning expert put several of these in the right atmosphere and got one to come out like this on purpose.&nbsp; It can be done in a humid summer attic inside sulfur containing envelopes.&nbsp; Not likely but possible.</p><p>There is a couple of little known ways to easily determine artificial color or coins that have had a procedure done that hastens the toning process but <b>not on slabbed coins.</b></p><p>Here&#039;s one of them - if you have several coins that are suspect put them out flat so you can almost look across them, like if they are in a page and you can see directly across the flattened surfaces and turn the coin or page as you look - at one point the artificial color on the coins surface will all diminish from colors to mottled grey or dark surfaces.&nbsp; <b>You can not quite do it in a slab though</b> - a true toned coin will also diminish but not as dramatically as the artificially toned coin.</p><p>A few years ago there was a group of Lincoln&#039;s on eBay described as gem early forties that were put in tissue for over 40 years from Florida.&nbsp; I think there were 70 pc. and he wanted $70 or so and I took a chance got them and there were the most beautiful Lincoln Cents you ever saw - not only were they rainbow toned in every color they were early die state, (as if the man knew exactly what he was doing)&nbsp; I sold (or gave to close friends) all but 2 of them, the very best ones.&nbsp; I think I made about $550 of the remaining nicest ones but they indeed were spectacular.&nbsp; I have nickels and some dimes and a few half&#039;s like that also.</p><p>But in the end what&#039;s the difference between artificial toned coins or coins that have been advanced or hastened to tone.&nbsp; I say if you like them buy them, if you don&#039;t stay away.</p><p>One more thing to remember whether artificial or not the coin, at it&#039;s most spectacular will probably degrade from there.&nbsp; In other words it&#039;s colors will never be better and as time goes on it will eventually not be as good - we can&#039;t deny that, that is the nature of the beast.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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