Reply to Thread

Message:: [QUOTE="TubeRider, post: 2311097, member: 76481"]I like toned coins! I did a lot of study on them and realized that the best way to recognize AT was to tone a bunch of coins myself.  After some practice and a lot of ruined coin I got pretty good at it.  I was toning some in albums (greatly accelerated) and I would check them every few days. I had some that looked REALLY good, I just could not tell the difference between what I had done in 6 weeks and the certified coins that supposedly took decades. I decided to put it to the test, one of the guys at my local coin shop had been a grader for a top TPGS for 15 years, so I went in and played dumb.  Said I had picked the coin up at a coin show, didn't pay much for it but still wanted to make sure it was not AT. He gave the coin a VERY good look, then finally said that the coin had been cleaned at one time (true, I did it).  He then said there was no doubt that the bulls eye, album toning was natural, very deep and the coin had been in a holder a very long time.... Again, the toning took a grand total of six weeks.[/QUOTE]