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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mikem2000, post: 1387368, member: 30574&quot;]Hmmmm, I am not saying it is or isn&#039;t from that picture, but what makes you believe that is NT. That bulls eye effect is pretty easy to achieve for a good coin doctor. What is done is the half is stacked with other (usually junk) halves and put is a little scoop or dip net. Then it is lowered in the solution and given a swirl. This causes the halves to slide around a bit and the perimeters get a stronger dose, hence the bull&#039;s eye toning.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you know the history of the coin or in hand it really looks NT, that is good enough for me, but the picture alone or even if it is cleanly slabbed is not.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also I have found that on coins that have been AT&#039;d with this method, the obverse and reverse tend to mirror each other. So on this coin where the blue goes deeper from the perimeter from about 5:00 to 8:00, if the obverse would have the same pattern from 10:00 to 1:00, I would be more suspect. The opposite would also be true, if the obverse was completely different, I would be leaning towards NT</p><p><br /></p><p>I am not trashing the coin here, but just giving food for thought.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mike[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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