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Seeking several opinions on a few pictures. NT or AT?

KimcheeKimchee Posts: 301
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All 4 pictures are from separate coins. The first and last pics may be too small. Thanks in advance.

Kimchee
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  • grabbagrabba Posts: 1,251
    Shake and bake!
  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,191 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • robertprrobertpr Posts: 6,862 ✭✭✭
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  • robertprrobertpr Posts: 6,862 ✭✭✭
    All four are blatently AT.
  • SilverEagles92SilverEagles92 Posts: 6,787 ✭
    AT. Every last one of 'em.
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  • ColonialCoinUnionColonialCoinUnion Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭
    Awful. Just awful.
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  • KimcheeKimchee Posts: 301
    Great. That means I got a little better at judging AT from NT, thanks to the Toning 101 thread.

    Kimchee
    Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.

    -Mark Twain
  • FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 5,914 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Genuine toning should have original mint luster,
    and most have the "cartwheel effect", even if
    they're not Silver Dollars.

    Toned coins with no luster, no "life" to 'em, are
    AT, in the hugely large majority of cases.

    If you have a toned coin, rotate it in front of you -
    the luster should "cartwheel" - if it's flat, it's AT
    Retired Collector & Dealer in Major Mint Error Coins & Currency since the 1960's.Co-Author of Whitman's "100 Greatest U.S. Mint Error Coins", and the Error Coin Encyclopedia, Vols., III & IV. Retired Authenticator for Major Mint Errors for PCGS. A 50+ Year PNG Member.A full-time numismatist since 1972, retired in 2022.
  • DickyBetzDickyBetz Posts: 3,825
    all AT!
  • RonyahskiRonyahski Posts: 3,118 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>
    If you have a toned coin, rotate it in front of you -
    the luster should "cartwheel" - if it's flat, it's AT >>



    That is just too broad of a statement to be true. Certainly all coins with original toning do not exhibit cartwheel luster. Questionable toning can haze over a coin, float on top of the coin, and otherwise may impair luster, but that's not always the case.
    Some refer to overgraded slabs as Coffins. I like to think of them as Happy Coins.
  • MyqqyMyqqy Posts: 9,777 ✭
    Wow- thems some ugly AT morgans.....
    My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable !

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