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<p>[QUOTE="Cascade, post: 2332302, member: 75984"]This is a tuff one. The strike says au but the color says ms. Could it be friction wear on an uncirculated coin that bag toned? Or could it be a decent job of AT on a cheap date au morgan? Or option 3, a slider 81s was quickly dipped to strip surfaces then the coin was left to naturally quick tone with others stacked like you just line dumped a roll of ase's (causing the huge crecent as the person wanted the coins semi elevated as they sat)</p><p><br /></p><p>For toning like that to occur naturally the surfaces need to be fresh and unmolested from circulation and finger oils etc. An au coin shouldn't tone like that without some type of "help"</p><p><br /></p><p>Gun to my head I'd go with my option 3 or a variant of it <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Cascade, post: 2332302, member: 75984"]This is a tuff one. The strike says au but the color says ms. Could it be friction wear on an uncirculated coin that bag toned? Or could it be a decent job of AT on a cheap date au morgan? Or option 3, a slider 81s was quickly dipped to strip surfaces then the coin was left to naturally quick tone with others stacked like you just line dumped a roll of ase's (causing the huge crecent as the person wanted the coins semi elevated as they sat) For toning like that to occur naturally the surfaces need to be fresh and unmolested from circulation and finger oils etc. An au coin shouldn't tone like that without some type of "help" Gun to my head I'd go with my option 3 or a variant of it :)[/QUOTE]
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