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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 2364579, member: 112"]Yes they are. And I have tried to explain this a hundred times on the forum - the only way to "see" those colors, is to look at that coin under a light at one very specific angle. View it from any other angle and you will not see those colors. This is true of I'd say 90% of all colorfully toned coins. This coin pictured below is one that I often use to illustrate this. I took both pictures using the same camera, the same camera settings, the same lights, and on the same day. The only thing I changed for the two different pictures were the angles of the camera to the coin and lights to the coin. And that change in angle was maybe 1 or 2 degrees - that's all. And yet look at the difference. [ATTACH=full]482762[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]482763[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]482764[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]482765[/ATTACH] Now to show you even more of a difference, here is a picture of the entire set in its original holder. You won't see hardly any toning at all in it. The half crown is the top left coin. [ATTACH=full]482766[/ATTACH] That coin of yours is from a 1957 Mint Set, and that type of toning is rather common on the coins from those sets. The 1958 sets are the ones that are best known for having the most colorful toning, the rest of the dates often end up looking like your coin. But there are exceptions of course. Here's one from '55, you'll see the similarity - [ATTACH=full]482767[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]