Improperly Cleaned?

Someone's figured out how to AT a coin already inside a holder?

I was thinking the cleaning chemicals may have reacted afterwards, or something was done to reactivate them after being slabbed, I doubt a coin like this would get slabbed without at least a mention of questionable color. Not that it's questionable, it's absolutely AT.

Then I went to NGC to look up the slab and they imaged it already colored like it is, it is a lot darker than represented on ebay, looks like a Photoshop job of boosting the saturation of colors and lighten filter applied liberally.

http://www.ngccoin.com/certlookup/i...=2541505-001

It should be mentioned but there is no room in the label formatting for two lengthy problem descriptors. NGC had to choose between IMPROPERLY CLEANED and ARTIFICIAL TONING and IMO they chose the wrong one to list. I searched through the Heritage Archives for problem Morgans in NGC slabs and very very few listed two problems and the ones that did were short descriptors, i.e. TOOLED, DAMAGED.

Wow. Definately looks like it's been heated

Is there such a thing as "properly cleaned"? Or would that be synonymous with "conserved"?

If the TPG does it for a fee, it's conservation.
If someone else does it, it gets a details slab.

No firm answer for that either way. A "conserved" coin might end up in a regular slab, the TPG doing the work having deemed the result "market acceptable." So one which graduated the conservation process into a Details slab probably has obvious evidence which would put it right back into a Details slab if you resubmit.