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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;borgovan, post: 887296, member: 13016&quot;]Thank you all very much. I like it a great deal.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It&#039;s really tough to describe artificial toning (which, I think, you describe as &quot;fake.&quot;) It usually just it too brilliant of toning. The colors often look really bright, like someone took a crayon to them. Also, the toning changes from one area of the coin to another can be quite abrupt, which is usually a sign of an AT coin. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Coins that are heated, or treated with cigarette (or other) smoke, have a brownish, dull appearance, or are toned pretty darkly.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This particular coin is very brilliant, and while the colors are wild, I don&#039;t see anything in particular that points to an artificially-toned coin. Coins like this are seen sometimes in proof sets of the 1960s, but in the 1950s, they are quite unusual.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I still haven&#039;t made up my mind 100% on this coin yet, on the question of AT vs. NT, but I&#039;m leaning toward NT, or else I wouldn&#039;t&#039;ve bought it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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