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Edited by DEVLEC
06/13/2014 10:34 am
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Canada
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yeah he just has to many of the same kinda toning can't be natural
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Personally I think for the most part , he has a great eye for pretty coins. Some of his stuff is to drool over. I have seen some of the coins he has sold fellow collectors and dealers and as East Van Rob said they are superior and have great eye appeal. I would not worry about this seller at all!!
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Neither PCGS or NGC will numerically grade an AT coin.
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brb have to get something to wipe the drool
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I collect by strike first, but appreciate toning in every which shape
from dark chocolate to steel to bright white with dashes of color.
Eye appeal is something that non-collectors pick up on, and these Canadian coins
have LOTS of eye appeal.
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Sweets============== With 100% respects to you.  Quote:
yeah he just has to many of the same kinda toning can't be natural Not sure if I can post a picture to this thread. I am just following suit to another poster just ahead of me. Mods, please pull down my post if I am in violation of CCF rules. My picture shows a bag of Ikes with many toned coins on the surface. I do not think this is one of my bags. BUT I did get one (1) bag with (about) 263 slightly toned to very toned Ike dollars. In my bag ==== why would anyone AT (about) 263 coins === then just "DUMP" 'em? I would say this about the whole situation however. His ebay ID is a little weird. Does anyone know if he sells coins NOT toned?  Edited by Domain555
06/15/2014 12:19 pm
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I think if a bunch of coins are stored together in the same environment for a long period of time, they can tone the same. Couple of years back I purchased 30 1967 open sets that all toned identical.
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JDM============= For my personal tastes ===== that is one unattractive coin  Yucky blotchy  |
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Thecoinhunter============= Quote:
I think if a bunch of coins are stored together in the same environment for a long period of time, they can tone the same. Couple of years back I purchased 30 1967 open sets that all toned identical. I had similar feels, as I would pull coin after coin out of the bag. All my bags have a different "theme" with them. One was a complete skunk. Yuck One was lousy with AG. Five (5?-6?)  One was all about TONING Some AG One was full of weird PMD?-ERROR? damages and grease strikes. One Peace One bag had (about) 100+ 1972 (P) type one and type 3. Some .4 stuff. One had 1973 (S), 1973(P) 1973(D) one ASE. Well --- you get the idea. Enough. PS === Wish I would have kept better records of all my bags. Shame on me  |
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I have heard of guys putting a silver coin into a bag with a crushed up hard boiled egg, the sulfer that off gases reacts with the silver or copper. I have no idea ir this is one of the causes of toning but I know jewerly makers use it to give an antique finish to silver jewelry.
I wonder if toning is caused by something like a torch?
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ICCS will still grade AT coins.
I too have thought many of this seller's coins have sinilar toning colours.
Especially the dull bluish-green toned coins which look good, but I have to admit, I have my very strong suspicions somethings a 'cookin'.
In my opinion, PCGS (which is very strict against grading AT coins) would reject quite a few of these.
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Edited by TheCoinHunter
06/21/2014 2:55 pm
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@TheCoinHunter: Those do look nice but they were toned using fire and a TPG would denote these at Artificial Toning. Here's my best toned coin. I have only seen ~5-10 Coins total that I would consider to have superior toning and most of them were proofs. I take every chance I get to show it off:  The image is absolutely huge so it will be down-sized by the website so click on it for a zoom-in. (Original Image was 3MB so I had to downsize to 1.35MB because Imgur failed to upload it). |
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Very nice coin. Agreed as far as TPGs grading requirements. Point being was that this wasn't a torch job.
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