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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 3248979, member: 15309&quot;]If Bob Campbell called that coin AT, the only effect is that it would severely damage his own reputation.&nbsp; There are only two reasons to artificially tone a coin.&nbsp; The first is to cover problems on an already valuable coin, thereby making it more valuable.&nbsp; There is no real downside, since the coin is already a problem coin via cleaning etc.&nbsp; The second reason is to impart beautiful rainbow toning in an attempt to obtain a premium price for the superior eye appeal of the coin.&nbsp; Coin doctors typically choose common coins that have very little numismatic value without the toning in order to mitigate their risk.&nbsp; The coin in question, which is usually referred to as &quot;the moose&quot; was a high grade premium gem Morgan Dollar with clean surfaces and booming luster and significant numismatic value.&nbsp; Calling the moose AT would mean that a coin doctor chose the best Morgan Dollar he could find and then successfully replicated bag toning in the most dramatic way possible with not one indicator of AT all while risking hundreds of dollars if he had failed.&nbsp; That story is entirely implausible.</p><p><br /></p><p>Earlier I stated that Bob Campbell&#039;s decades old assertion that all green toning is artificial is demonstrably false.&nbsp; There are thousands of bag toned Morgan Dollars with some level of green toning.&nbsp; Are they all AT?&nbsp; What about the the ones that are documented coming from sealed bags, such as those from the Battle Creek hoard?</p><p><br /></p><p>1886 Morgan Dollar NGC MS64* Battle Creek &quot;Pink Eye Dollar&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/U1ot83T.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>How about coins from the 1957-58 mint sets that are well documented to generate rainbow toning.&nbsp; Are all of those with green toning artificial as well?</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/NM1e4Ts.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/RZ2oxFg.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>In 1997, when Bob supposedly made that statement, it was at best hyperbolic.&nbsp; Today, with all the new information we have about toned coins, it is demonstrably false.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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