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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;physics-fan3.14, post: 11520240, member: 19165&quot;]Yes, it was artificially toned. </p><p><br /></p><p>Often, PCGS will only list the most egregious of the issues - a coin with multiple separate issues like your coin won&#039;t all fit on the label. So, they&#039;ll pick the most obvious one. </p><p><br /></p><p>Likely, your coin was cleaned to remove whatever patina that existed on it. Then, they applied the artificial toning you see. They have to clean it first, because otherwise the AT would interfere with the original patina - they must start with clean, fresh silver to get the artificial toning to look &quot;nice.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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