1944 Mercury Dime Artificially Toned?

Looks intentionally 'human influenced'--simply because reverse and obverse toning is nearly identical. Just my opinion.

It's a cute toning tho. $25-$30 it is

I agree with you 100% it is extremely overpriced just like the price of gas. They make it more expensive to drive and I have to make it easier for myself to drive one way or the other.

It looks rather attractive, but for me, toning like this be it artificial or natural, is unstable over the long term,
and will eventually patinate all over and evenly, if left alone.

Sometimes, artificial toning can be a matter of opinion.

For instance this coin could have been place on a sheet of bleached paper and left in the sun on a windowsill. Equally it could have been wrapped in a sheet of bleached white paper and kept in a drawer for years. Some may regard this as 'natural' toning, others may say 'artificial'.

For these reasons I believe silver MS++ coins are better off when blast white, this being the condition in which they were, just after leaving the coining press
.

As an aside, I believe that most owners of an MS-70 ASE for instance, would prefer their treasure to be blast white, rather than toned. Nice toning after all, however it came about, is really just an attractive form of mild surface corrosion.

For those who prefer attractively toned coins (whatever the reason), such coins should be kept in air tight environment to maintain their current coloring for as long as possible.

As I re-read the thread, I think most everybody thinks it's AT.

with the folks that say that this is AT. (which I think is everyone.)
For the record, I'm not a huge fan of the color on this coin. The pastel colors reminds me of the colors that a puddle of oil makes when water is mixed in during a rain storm.

Of course it's artificial.

No one has mentioned how this isn't Uncirculated though.

I think you don't understand what that word means.

It is far from Uncirculated.