1943 Walking Liberty Half - Toned - Coin Community Forum

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Connor Pillar of the Community United States 2130 Posts	Posted 09/23/2014 7:29 pm What do you think this half dollar would grade? Report this Post to the Staff

Adam_E Pillar of the Community United States 4846 Posts	Posted 09/23/2014 7:42 pm I think that might be AT, which would give you a details grade, if not I'd say it's and AU-55. Edited by Adam_E 09/23/2014 7:42 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Necer149 Valued Member United States 457 Posts	Posted 09/23/2014 8:06 pm AU55-58, nice coin! Report this Post to the Staff
panzaldi Bedrock of the Community United States 18687 Posts	Posted 09/23/2014 8:07 pm Report this Post to the Staff
TypeCoin971793 Pillar of the Community United States 6370 Posts	Posted 09/23/2014 8:36 pm AU-58 details. Artificial toning. Report this Post to the Staff
RK55 Pillar of the Community United States 2189 Posts	Posted 09/23/2014 9:48 pm Au-58 Report this Post to the Staff
wheatchaser140 Pillar of the Community United States 2368 Posts	Posted 09/24/2014 5:45 pm AU-58 details, questionable color. Report this Post to the Staff
SsuperDdave Moderator United States 23522 Posts	Posted 09/24/2014 5:55 pm It's beautiful, but I see circulation and 99 times out of 100 this kind of color on a circulated coin is artificial. Circulation wear affects the microscopic surface details before we can see it, and with those surfaces "flattened" from wear one cannot expect a color pattern like this to occur naturally. Report this Post to the Staff
CoinCollector2012 Pillar of the Community United States 8137 Posts	Posted 09/24/2014 7:02 pm AU details Questionable color. It's still kind of nice. I'ts not the worst AT I have seen. Report this Post to the Staff
Connor Pillar of the Community United States 2130 Posts	Posted 09/24/2014 7:13 pm Thanks for the explanation superdave. I was wondering how one could tell a coin was AT. Next question is how does someone AT a coin? I paid $20 for the coin. I doubted the toning myself but still loved the look. Report this Post to the Staff
SsuperDdave Moderator United States 23522 Posts	Posted 09/24/2014 7:55 pm Worth it at $20. One can AT a coin in a thousand ways ranging from merely dropping it into an appropriate atmosphere - say, the top of your desk - and waiting a year or two, to sticking it into a potato and cooking it for half an hour and getting the same result. The longer you take, the more natural the coin looks. I won't accuse this of being deliberately AT. It took too long to get this beautiful color. I'm guessing it wasn't malicious on the part of the owner. This is a plainly AT coin but I'd be happy to own it. Report this Post to the Staff
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