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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 475017, member: 15309&quot;]No lighting tricks, the coin actually looks like that.&nbsp; I will not pretend to have knowledge of the toning characteristics of gold coins, but they do tone.&nbsp; Remember that gold coins are 90% gold and 10% copper.&nbsp; The toning you see is certainly the result of a reaction with the copper in the alloy.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are die hard Saint collectors that will say that this type of toning is not natural and is the result of artificial toning processes.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know if they are right or not.&nbsp; What I do know is that the coin resides in an NGC holder and they have deemed this type of toning marketplace acceptable.&nbsp; I have always wanted one of these and now I have one.&nbsp; Yeah!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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