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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 872887, member: 112&quot;]You could probably find more discussion about it than you could read in a month. Some of it would even be true. </p><p><br /></p><p>But what you would eventually discover is that while there are a whole lot of people who think they are experts on toning - they really aren&#039;t. It&#039;s a sad fact, but probably the only real experts on toning that exist are the coin doctors - and they aint talking.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some artificial toning is easy to detect, like the coin you posted (and that is just an educated guess). But some of it is 100% undetectable. There is no science, there is no expert, there is no microscope, there is no human eye, and there is no knowledge that can tell you with certainty that toning is artificial. The best anybody has is an educated guess. Unless of course you can talk to the coin doctor who did it. And even then, he might be lying.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That will at least get you coins that are deemed to be market acceptable. Because the TPGs can&#039;t tell either. Even among the coins slabbed by NGC and PCGS there are more than a few examples where the self proclaimed experts will tell you that the coin is AT. </p><p><br /></p><p>Of course they can&#039;t prove it, but to listen to them you&#039;d sure think they could.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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