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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 120571, member: 112&quot;]I can&#039;t tell you how many times I have been asked - &quot;how do you tell an artificially toned coin ?&quot;. My standard answer is - there are times when you can&#039;t. That&#039;s because I&#039;ve known some people who could do just about anything they wanted to with a coin. They could take a coin, tone it up, submit it to NGC or PCGS and have it slabbed in a heartbeat. Luckily, there aren&#039;t that many of those people around. And even more luckily, the one&#039;s I refer to have only done it to prove that they could. </p><p><br /></p><p>Sadly however, there are those who practice artificially toning coins and then selling them, often for high prices, to those who can&#039;t recognize even a poor job of AT. Perhaps the following links will help some learn how to identify artificially toned coins as well as naturally toned coins.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Tone Coin Collectors&#039; Society</b></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.tonedcoins.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.tonedcoins.org/" rel="nofollow">TonedCoins.org</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Real, Artificial - In Between</b></p><p><br /></p><p>IN A NUTSHELL: Toning can add natural beauty, and value, to coins. Or it can be the result of tampering by a coin doctor. There are ways to tell.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://rg.ancients.info/guide/toning.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://rg.ancients.info/guide/toning.html" rel="nofollow">Info Guide</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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