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Message:: [QUOTE="Vess1, post: 713002, member: 13650"]The thing is though, we know what caused the 42/1.  It will always be.   On the other hand, you always have to wonder how this non-silver, high grade, 50-D nickel 'miraculously' turned these colors (on both sides), while almost no other one ever did.   Why this one?    It never circulated to encounter various substances or chemicals that could do this.  So what caused it?   With something like this, there's no way to know if it's AT'd or NT'd.   Maybe it was NT'd by someone experimenting with something and they coaxed it along to look like this after experimenting with other nickels?  Which is AT'ing in my book.   That is a very good possibility here.    Ok, fine.  It's market acceptable because it's in an NGC slab.  But if somebody did intentionally do something to cause this, should they be rewarded with $1000?   A premium of $960 over a normal one?   And will the colors remain over time?  That's what the whole premium is based on afterall.        For four digit prices, the coin doctors have a lot of incentive and buying power.   The incentive is there to expend more time, more effort and more money on tools, equipment and chemicals, to create better toned coins that will slab.  All this does is reward them and cause more of the greedy ba****** to come out of the woodwork.   Way too much to pay for the uncertainty of it all, IMHO.[/QUOTE]