Is This Coin Naturally Toned?

Artificial toning and highly edited photos.

Because they make money with every single listing .
This is just another con artist seller who only goes after the uneducated newbie .

2 1/2 basic ways of producing artificial toning with excellent eye appeal:
1. careful heat treatment
2. chemical treatment in a liquid or corrosive gas environment
1/2: both

Experience, skill, timing, required temperature and concentration level of chemicals are all important.

I am always suspicious of rainbow toning, because almost impossible to distinguish natural from artificial. Thus, I may buy such coins anyway, but always completely discount the value of the toning to zero.

Rainbow toning in most cases is unstable.
For this reason, with silver coins, I prefer blast white in MS grades, as they appear when they have just been ejected from the coining press.

It does look like 'accelerated toning' and it's not difficult to take a mildly toned coin and make it look like that. And that thing has been filtered within an inch of it's life.

Artificially toned by heating.


and same coin thrown through some colour modifications and mild ( ) colour enhancement / switching.


I didn't spend very long on that or it would probably look more convincing.

Very unnatural damaged coins.

My 71-S Kennedy it was "naturally toned" also. The boiled egg came from a free range chicken , and the Ziploc bag it was stored in was from recycled plastic .... Curent market value .... 49 CENTS!

When you put a biological egg (instead to eat for your health), do not toning the letters near the rim. This it is a bad idea. Me I will eat the egg and let my coins to toning naturally.