Questionable Toning?

Sulfur is actually the usual suspect with toned silver, natural or otherwise, just not in the kind of concentration one would imagine being dipped in it would achieve.

I officially nominate SsuperDdave for Most Delicately Worded Statement Of The Year.

I remember a similar thread at least a year ago. The coin in that one had comical, horrendous "bullseye" toning with seemingly radioactive, almost neon colors that made
you want to wear OSHA-approved eye protection. The OP asked if it might possibly be artificial toning and one poster replied by saying "BLOWTORCH! BLOWTORCH!"

This Hercules and the Nymphs coin isn't (comparatively) all that bad. I think it's actually kind of nice looking. Just a personal opinion, but... I think playing toning games with
authentic silver coins isn't cool and that games of that sort should be played with generic silver rounds.

Check it closely for a mintmark, probably "A" for Alamogordo or "T" for Trinity.

And naturally there is that problem of exactly what is AT. For example if that coin was left in a place where a toning type gas was present, is that AT? If it was placed in that invironment purposely, then that should make it AT? Sort of like if you dropped a coin in a pile of dirt by accident where Sulfur is present. Find it a year later and it is now all tomed. Is that AT? I've always thought that AT and NT are just terminology and it is at times impossible to really know the difference. So although this one appears to have been in a gas oven for a while or sitting on top of a raw, hardboiled egg, it may have happened by accident.
However, what would you call it if done by someone that has been eating eggs, Italian beef samdwhiches with hot pepper, beer and now breathed on that coin?
I've met so many people with breath like that I suspect many toned coins are just from being near them.

Feeling kind of thick right now, what did I miss?

*head-desk* I wish I could say brain freeze but it think it might be early dementia...

You are going to fit in just_fine here, Duncan.

Consider me to have used a smiley at the end of that sentence.

I actually like it too. As I said, in hand the colors don't jump out and are noticable only when tilted. However, what happens as the toning progresses? I assume it will just turn black. How soon? I guess that depends on storage conditions and what I eat.