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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Leadfoot, post: 1061546, member: 2972&quot;]Sure you would, today, along with anyone who&#039;s been paying attention to the forums for the past few years.</p><p><br /></p><p>The better question is, however, what was your opinion in 2005?&nbsp; How about 1995?</p><p><br /></p><p>The point being that hindsight is always 20-20, but foresight is often not as shown by these coins.&nbsp; Furthermore, I see many exhibiting the same hubris evident back then (e.g. blue toned copper is NT tissue toning), and it may well prove to be incorrect yet again.&nbsp; And that, by my estimation, is a mistake, and why I responded to your authoritatively worded, yet quite incorrect, post.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Tell me, why do you think it &quot;did not look natural by any means&quot;?&nbsp; To the contrary, it exhibits many NT characteristics:</p><p><br /></p><p>o The color progression is right.</p><p><br /></p><p>o The colors are right.</p><p><br /></p><p>o White centers like many album toned coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>o The toning is mottled and asymmetrical.</p><p><br /></p><p>o It was in a PCGS slab!!!!</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://images.heritagecoin.com/images/HNAI/75/422/422094031a.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>What&#039;s wrong with the coin?&nbsp; You tell me, and please be specific as to how you can identify this coin as something a doctor cooked up in a month versus spending 20 years in a Whittman, LOC, or WR album?</p><p><br /></p><p>[edited to add:]</p><p>Listen, I&#039;m as big of a toned coin lover as anyone on here.&nbsp; However, the love of toned coins (and being invested in them) shouldn&#039;t change our objectivity to the facts and the ever-changing and danger-filled landscape of NT/AT or MA/NMA.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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