How's this auction for artificial toning

nwcs

I was showing someone some of the monster morgans on ebay that anaconda has (if only I had money!!) and came across this "monster" toned coin from another person. Pretty obvious job, eh?

Auction Link

HuliganRS

That is BAD !!!

Heat treated @ 500 for 10 minutes

braddick

For a really good time cruise his other eBay auctions for more AT coinage. . .

nwcs

Yikes, I didn't look at his other auctions. I've never seen a fair-2 quarter with wild toning before!

Neil

braddick

See what I'm up against?!

Dog97

It certianly wouldn't pass at a service.

gsaguy

Dog, you're forgetting ACG....of course, that's assuming you consider them a 'service'. I guess it's more like GETTING SERVICED when doing business with them!

GSAGUY

FlyTooHigh

Chemical work!

Another bad job!

TheNumish

Looked at sellers feedback and the guy only has 2 negs with 1633 unique positives. Based on that I think I'm going to snipe all those beauties!!! Maybe Anaconda will pay me big bucks for them.

windwhispersintrees

Thank you for posting his auction. The subject of toning is a bit new to me...I last collected in the early 1980s. I just learned a lot by looking at the photos in all of his auctions. Some really ugly things there....bright strident blues, no subtlety of color gradation, etc. on low grade coins. Very suspicious. There were a few though that seemed ok. But then there's the auction descriptions to raise my suspicions.

The seller states his grandfather collected coins: "He picked up toned coins whenever he saw them in change or for sale or even in the casinos. Anyway, the collection sat in his basement ..... The coins are all naturally toned and became toned from the way they were stored, where they were stored and for how long they were stored. Unless my grandfather bought artificially toned coins prior to 1971 (which there is no evidence of)I can say for a fact that these are natural."

The seller is such a poor liar that he contradicts himself...the coins were found toned...no wait...they became toned.
Was it even fashionable to collect toned coins in the 1950s and 1960s?

Thanks for the continuing education.

nwcs

Yeah, these were pretty obvious. I think we need to have a hall of shame or something for auctions like this where AT is beyond obvious. Kind of like an educational service!