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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;desertgem, post: 991212, member: 15199&quot;]<p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">The premise of his question included the above. If a professional ( lets say PCGS or NGC) couldn&#039;t tell, what are you going to do? Stop collecting any</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">toned coins at all. This is somewhat ironic because more than likely if you have a toned coin collection, ( even if it includes some PCGS,NGC, etc), you already have some AT coins. Not a popular statement, but chemistry is chemistry.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">Of course everyone wants a &quot;natural&quot;, but if you can&#039;t tell........ Just as an aside, the first ( over 1 carat) synthetic diamonds have hit the market place. GIA has reported on them being submitted to labs by people (who thought they had a great deal I guess). They are really diamonds, but you need certain gemological lab equipment to try and distinguish. </span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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