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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sidestick, post: 2821164, member: 83381&quot;]Doesn&#039;t it all boil down to what the collector wants? If a collector has the opportunity to acquire a toned coin, any coin he or she finds desirable, what does it matter if it&#039;s AT or NT?</p><p><br /></p><p>I personally think it&#039;s unethical to &quot;doctor&quot; coins, but I also appreciate attractively toned coins, and I understand that &quot;toning&quot; really is just an environmental effect on metal whether done artificially or happening &quot;naturally&quot; because of the environment in which the coin was placed.</p><p><br /></p><p>We all take a chance on any coin we buy: it might be cleaned or tooled, it might be an artificially aged ancient coin, it might be negatively affected by something that professional grader missed. There are a lot of traps for us collectors and toning just happens to be one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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