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<p>[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 140478, member: 4626"]Artifical or not, it's still a great looking coin. If you like the way it looks and aren't intending to sell it, it soesn't realyl matter whether the toning is artifical or not, lol.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a slim chance the toning is natural... I've even seen some recent pennies tone some weird colors. I have a 1964 cent that has taken on a magenta tone to it. Just depends on the environment where it is kept.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I had to hazard a guess, your coin likely was cleaned a long time ago, and the toning likely occured after the cleaning as a side effect of it having been cleaned. That's just a guess though.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 140478, member: 4626"]Artifical or not, it's still a great looking coin. If you like the way it looks and aren't intending to sell it, it soesn't realyl matter whether the toning is artifical or not, lol. There is a slim chance the toning is natural... I've even seen some recent pennies tone some weird colors. I have a 1964 cent that has taken on a magenta tone to it. Just depends on the environment where it is kept. If I had to hazard a guess, your coin likely was cleaned a long time ago, and the toning likely occured after the cleaning as a side effect of it having been cleaned. That's just a guess though.[/QUOTE]
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