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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Publius2, post: 25222120, member: 105571&quot;]The answer to your first question:&nbsp; Could a coin be artificially toned while encased in the major TPG slab?&nbsp; I think the answer is yes, but it would probably take a while.&nbsp; The slabs are not fully hermetic but they are fairly tight so if the slab was surrounded by a toning gas for a long period of time, then some of that toning gas would get into the slab.</p><p><br /></p><p>The second question is answered by the PCGS TrueView.&nbsp; I looked it up myself and the coin in the PCGS site looks the same to me as the coin you showed a Trueview of.&nbsp; I think it most likely that if PCGS thought the coin was artificially toned when they had it raw for the TrueView photos, then they would have identified it as such.&nbsp; They did not do so.&nbsp; At least as far as the market graders at PCGS are concerned, this particular coin is at the very least market-acceptable to them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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