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Message:: [QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1609145, member: 26302"]Honestly, I don't know if a penny was paid for "pretty toning". Without toning that is a pretty coin, nice original surfaces. Nice original surfaces on a dime of that era is hard enough to find. Now couple that with it being a very much in demand type coin, and I believe you have your answer. Would I pay it? Probably not, but if I really wanted a GREAT XF for my type set, I bet I probably couldn't find a better one anywhere. Plus, $200 is NOT a lot of money for a coin anymore, so I bet a couple of people may have knowingly overpaid just to get a superlative coin for the grade for their type set. Like I said, the coin could not have a lick of "pretty color" on it and I would have no problem with the price. You posted a CBH earlier Tim that had been overdipped. THOSE coins are very common, a non-messed with original type coin is NOT. Your price guide was probably averaging 30 overdipped coins prices in with a NICE coin like this. Tim, it will come with experience, but some coins are WORTH more than any price guide will say. Once you truly start studying the series, and see how rare 19th century silver with untouched surfaces are, you will start to appreciate that fact. I have overpaid by a factor of 4 times book for certain coins, and thought they were a steal at that price. The area of collecting you are going into is much more complicated than looking up a coin in a price guide, if you want nice coins.[/QUOTE]