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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;raider34, post: 1326383, member: 16402&quot;]Yes it is possible. PCGS will grade a coin if they&nbsp; feel the toning is market acceptable. Sometimes a coin &quot;slips through&nbsp; the crack&quot;, and sometimes it&#039;s just a very good AT job. There have been&nbsp; cases of AT coins making it into slabs. - IIRC there was a pretty&nbsp; notorious AT ASE that was in a PCGS holder (couldn&#039;t find a pic of it&nbsp; though). </p><p>&nbsp; </p><p>With&nbsp; 100% certainty, no. Imo, it&#039;s particularly hard with toned ASE&#039;s. Like&nbsp; Ikeigwin said, ASE&#039;s tend to tone in some very colorful ways, the&nbsp; problem is, a lot of the colors that appear to naturally tone on ASE&#039;s&nbsp; are questionable colors (in terms of market acceptability). The biggest&nbsp; is that dark purple color, on most other coin series that dark purple is&nbsp; a notorious AT color. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Those are diffused lighting pics, does the seller have any&nbsp; other pics listed? Diffused lighting pics taken at an angle generally&nbsp; are going to show the toning at its strongest. Straight on pics with&nbsp; regular lighting (along with the diffused pics) will give you a better&nbsp; idea of how the coin looks in hand. I would never buy a coin from&nbsp; diffused lighting pics alone. </p><p>Here&#039;s a random example off Heritage it show the difference: <a href="http://coins.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1166&amp;lotNo=3319" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coins.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1166&amp;lotNo=3319" rel="nofollow">http://coins.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1166&amp;lotNo=3319</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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