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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 2279720, member: 15309&quot;]I have concerns about that coin as well but the toning looks more market acceptable than yours.&nbsp; When evaluating toning, you need to try to determine what storage conditions could have caused the resultant toning pattern.&nbsp; On the Goldberg coin, the obverse shows what is called target toning creating concentric rings of progressing colors that are more advanced at the rim of the coin which was in contact with the sulfur rich paper of the album that housed the coin.&nbsp; So if the coin was in an album, why did the obverse tone almost completely, but the reverse developed no toning whatsoever?</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, the toning on the obverse of the Goldberg coin looks much more market acceptable than yours.&nbsp; First, the color progression starts at the center of the coin with tan an progresses gradually to orange, lavender, and powder blue which is a common progression.&nbsp; Your coin starts with an untoned interior and then has a defined dark ring to start the toning progression.&nbsp; I have seen this toning pattern before and it usually appears on artificially toned ASEs.&nbsp; Second, the toning on the Goldberg coin does not creep over the lettering with the same consistency that it does on your coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Whenever I see a common date low grade silver coin with little to no numismatic value and dramatic rainbow toning that shows many elements of AT, I become very suspicious of the originality of the toning.&nbsp; Your coin is no exception.&nbsp; But I am not a grader at NGC or PCGS and I have not seen the coin in hand.&nbsp; In order to reap any financial benefit that the toning would provide this coin, you are going to need to get it certified, so my suggestion is that you submit the coin to either PCGS or NGC for certification.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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