Artificially Toned Morgan?

yes that morgan looks AT to me. The splotchiness is what tells on it

I would have to agree, it doesn't look like it was artificially applied but was caused by someone putting some other type of cleaning liquid and age just caused the toning after the bath in such liquid to look this way

first try to get and unc example that you can still see the cartwheel of luster on it and I would look for ones that have a bullseye like toning that will usually the least deceptive but I am sure there are alot of other opionions and also with any Morgan try an research the paticular year and mint ( ex. O, S CC, or Philly with no mint mark and make sure the coin for the mint and year has full strike or not some morgans appear to have wear on the Breast of the eagle and locks of hair above the ear on lady liberty, but may have not been struck completly

thanks for your help people, I too like the blast white but would like a toned just for the collection. Sorry for asking my question in your topic keh but I hope these answers also help with your enquiry with your morgan.

That looks like Artificial Toning!
I tried it once, to a very very cheap, 50 fil Kuwait coin, I put Model Aeroplane Fuel on it, (My dads hobby) and lit it, after 5 mins, it sort of comming out like that.

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Originally posted by keh

Thanks for the comments guys. So, the next obvious question would be, if its artificially toned, is it worthless?

In general, I guess this is why I shy away from toned coins. There are so many toned coins out there. Some look good, some look bad. But how can you tell which toned that way naturally over time and which was cooked up in someone's garage?!? I am surprised by some of the huge premiums people are paying for graded (from a TPG) toned coins on ebay.

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Moon money for toned coins is (in my opinion, of course), a speculative bubble composed of folks who care little, and know less, about the intrinsic value of a coin. Meh.

Attributing toning is a process which, done right, takes as long to learn as natural toning takes to happen. Some coins, like your example, are fairly obvious because the most likely cause of that coin's look was improper rinsing of a dip followed by overdoing the artificial toning process.

Having said that, it's conceivable that your coin is naturally toned.

See where I'm going here? Further, what constitutes "natural?" I can stick a blast white silver coin under my monitor and tone it in two months. I don't touch it, I add no chemicals or processes which aren't already occurring in my environment, and I wasn't even doing it deliberately when I found out that it happened.

Who defines "natural?"

In a recent incident that generated a lot of attention in the numismatic world, a monster toned Peace dollar slabbed by NGC was discovered to be AT, causing NGC to take a five-figure hit on their insurance coverage. The punchline to that incident is, there is no precise physical process to determine AT vs. NT. That coin might well be NT; some expert somewhere decided it was AT, so AT it is.

Except, before that, some expert somewhere decided it was NT.

See why I don't do toned coins?