Real or AT
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personally, however, i do not like it
K S
I owned this coin for 5 years, until March 2002. I sold it at the Baltimore show to raise funds to acquire nicer pieces. The dealer I sold it to then passed it on to Bondman, who sold it on E-bay several months ago for twice what I sold it for. While the price was lingering at what I did sell it for, I was tempted to buy it back.
I liked this coin, but it was in the bottom 10% in obverse eye appeal of the gem toned Morgans I own, so that's one reason I decided to sell it. But, it's a very lovely coin and I can assure you it is totally original, not just maket acceptable.
but let's not fire up that argument again ...
K S
However, after viewing thousands of toned dollars (I'm being conservative here), one can tell which coins have a high likelihood of being natural, like this one, and which ones have a low likelihood (any offered by A Swimmer or Cointone). And, the more one has a chance to look, observe, and study a particular coin the more confident we become in our assessment.
(As an aside, not all such determinations are this easy. Note the discussion of the grape colored coin coin in another thread today. Here, the confidence level of making a correct assessment by someone knowledgeable in these matters is is is much lower. But, the untoned area on the obverse doesn't look natural to me, and the grape-purple color is suspicious.)
Back to this coin: it just turned out to be a matter of chance that the subject coin here was in fact mine for 5 years. I studied it carefully during that time, and judge with 99% confidence that the coin toned in a manner we would consider natural. So, when Dorkarl opines here, based only on the scan (which barely shows the prominent fingerprint or dull finish on the obverse), he is subject to being disputed. And, in this case I can do that based on much more than a scan.
But, in the end my response was not so much to embarass Dorkarl, although hopefully he will now think a little more carefully before judging a coin to be AT. Rather, I wanted mostly to educate readers about a question raised in a post when I was in the unusual position of knowing with high probablity what the right answer was, and to pass on that answer to those interested in improving their skills at differentiating AT from NT.
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<< <i>However, when the owner attempted to jump on a Member's comment with the ANACS holder as overwhelming evidence that the poster was wrong, well that was too much. >>
DCAM,
WTF are you talking about, idiot? I did no such thing and you know it. Like you actually have any idea what you're talking about, anyway. All you do is parrot the real collectors around here. You have zero credibility on anything coin related, and everybody at this forum knows it.
Friggin' troll.
Russ, NCNE
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<< <i>However, when the owner attempted to jump on a Member's comment with the ANACS holder as overwhelming evidence that the poster was wrong, well that was too much. >>
DCAM,
WTF are you talking about, idiot? I did no such thing and you know it. Like you actually have any idea what you're talking about, anyway. All you do is parrot the real collectors around here. You have zero credibility on anything coin related, and everybody at this forum knows it.
Friggin' troll.
Russ, NCNE >>
Russ- Go spew your venom elsewhere!
I know exactly what I'm talking about. That's why I'm not in ownership of the AT coin.
Regards, Gemtone65
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