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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MercuryBen, post: 3523843, member: 44521&quot;]I can&#039;t tell you whether they are AT or natural, but I can tell you that I purchased one merc from this dealer in an NGC MS66* holder, so NGC thought the merc was natural.&nbsp; I also crossed the coin into a PCGS holder, so both grading companies thought it was market acceptable.&nbsp; The TrueView is below.</p><p><br /></p><p>My suspicion is that these coins are from a horde of coins that were intentionally placed in conditions (holder, temperature, etc) conducive to toning over the course of a few years.&nbsp; I will not opine on whether that constitutes AT (plenty of threads on this).&nbsp; However, in my opinion, the coins are definitely not the product of oven baking or other rudimentary AT techniques (i.e., involving chemicals or very high temps over short periods of times).</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]935841[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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