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Canada
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I sell quite a lot of my toned 2012 pennies and others on ebay. I've been thinking of perhaps having some graded most likely by ICCS, wondering if they'll do it for one. All have original mint luster and in some cases more so than straight from the roll.  Edited by Cu Lung
09/26/2014 10:33 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Nah, coins that have obvious AT will come back with a details/No grade by any respectable coin grader
Edited by Adam_E
09/26/2014 12:36 am
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New Member
 Canada
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I don't use chemicals on these, au natural!
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
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These are AT (artificially toned), considered damaged, won't be graded.
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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au natural chemicals or not, these are ARTIFICIALLY TONED, nothing natural about them and TPGs would grade them as such |
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 United States
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Looks cool. I hope you are advertising these on e-Bay for what they really are or you are going to give our hobby a  John1  |
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Canada
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Canada
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Considering Cu Lung and dmcmetals2012 are both based out of Kitchener I would say so.
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Canada
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You're doing well for yourself monetarily with your "creations," but they are creations that shouldn't grade. My post in the link was tongue-in-cheek, meaning they are obvious AT. Clearly there's a market though.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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what are you using to get these AT colours?! No respectable service would touch those with a ten foot pole!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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76 smackers, the invisible hand of the economy has spoken.
I will say Cu Lung all thought not for me they really do pop and are quite pretty, maybe you could use a MIG welder and make a bracelet out of the coins, that would look nice on some pretty young lass.
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Korea, Republic Of
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AT and stop selling them right now in ebay if you don't mention AT in the listings. Too many people would fall for these and pay staggering amounts of good money for such coins worth only face value. And no, no respectable TPG would touch those sad results of AT. Chemical or not, it's AT. Not NT. Edited by Matteproof
09/26/2014 09:37 am
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Canada
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ICCS will grade toned coins - but if they think a coin has been toned artificially (and in this case, blatantly), they will body bag it (which still costs the grading fee) and call it "unusual surfaces".
Ironically, ICCS will not do that for a coin that has been "dipped to death"
"Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Canada
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Hey SPP_Ottawa, did you get any of those rainbow millennials graded? Where they considered artificially toned?
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Canada
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Yes - one. http://www.ebay.ca/itm/GEM-TONED-Ca...290940849629I chose one that was of decent grade, with softer, more uniform toning. I told Brian Cornwell the history of the coin, when I submitted it. He said, if the intent was not there, then he would grade it.  That said, there were way more wilder toned coins that I had... At least one CCF member got a full set of toned 2000 millennium coins from me... For those who want to know what Harmonica is referring to: https://goccf.com/t/136928For fun, I sold a set this past August... and was surprised that the price it fetched, and a buyer from the UK was the winning bidder (which is not cheap to ship). http://www.ebay.ca/itm/301265149716"Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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09/26/2014 10:05 am
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Canada
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THIS, is what natural pink toning looks like:  Toned on one side only, but I have a matching pair from a 1973 double cent specimen set (red boxed set that had two specimen 1c coins in it, one face up and one face down, loose, and no silver dollar). Finding 100% red specimen cents from 1973 is darn hard - they were either issued in those double cent sets or the famous Prestige sets with the silver dollar and the famous red fluff that corroded the coins. This set of pink toners came out of a very dry southern Okanagan basement... the colour is best described as vivid... "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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