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Message:: [QUOTE="Troodon, post: 321522, member: 4626"]Not a big fan of toning, it's usually artifical when it looks good and usually ugly if it's not artificial. May make exceptions in some cases but not often.  (Has to be some normal, natural color, maybe a light grey, even black if it's not spotty and accents the details well, a nice even gold maybe... certaintly not wild colors like green, red, purple etc.) I'd never in my life pay more than say, twice what a coin would otherwise be worth, for the sake of non-artifical appealing toning, even in the rare case I found the toning to be in any way appealing. I can understand why it may appeal to some people, but I just don't get why some people will pay HUGE premiums for it, just because some lucky chemical trick caused corrosion (euphamistically called "toning" in some cases) to appear in pretty colors.  Maybe a little, maybe even up to an extra 100% of what the coin's otherwise worth even, but past that is just rediculous.  I espeically don't get why anybody will pay anything at all for "monster toning" (which I would call "heavily tarnished" or "heavily corroded"!) If people like those colors so much, why not just take a can of paint and paint the colors on themselves? This is something I just can't get my mind around.[/QUOTE]