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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2374381, member: 1892&quot;]Quite agreed, and the eagle&#039;s breast and legs seem to agree with us. With that in mind, the color has to be immediately suspect, if only from a TPG point of view. The conditions under which toning is popularly adjudicated as &quot;natural&quot; <b>rarely</b> happen to circulated coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>And I&#039;d find it hard to adjudicate this toning as &quot;natural&quot; even on a Mint State coin (these images are, of course, insufficient for more than vague speculation as to the actual grade). The abrupt color transitions from magenta to blue, combined with the random mixing of them - and the ragged areas where no toning at all exist - on the obverse, and the splotchy areas of <b>much</b> darker toning (like the N of ONE, and other places on the rim, argue that the coin has undergone more than one toning process. That doesn&#039;t pass the smell test.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, add in the plain fact that 1896-P is common in high grade and $200 should buy a slabbed MS65 with a Green Bean (excepting the fact that these seem to rarely Bean; Heritage has only offered two MS65&#039;s with Beans in the last year and one of those was DMPL), and I&#039;m of the opinion that I wouldn&#039;t buy this coin for $200 with stolen money.</p><p><br /></p><p>In its&#039; defense, there are some pretty spectacular (and spectacularly weird) toning patterns known for 1896, and these images are (relatively speaking) poor enough to be completely deceptive.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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