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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1801528, member: 57463&quot;]This has been discussed at length often.&nbsp; Put &quot;artificial toning&quot; in the Search Box for Titles Only and you will get 30 hits.&nbsp; And more is in the archives.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you like a coin, buy it.&nbsp; Realize that someone else might perceive it differently.&nbsp; Just for example, I have a Roman denarius of Trajan, but it was the celestial globe on the reverse that I wanted.&nbsp;&nbsp; Someone else might not care about astronomy.</p><p><br /></p><p>And, to re-animate the long-dead poor old horse...&nbsp; All toning is toning.&nbsp; Chemistry is chemistry.&nbsp; A guy carries his lucky silver dollar to work each day in a steel mill. Another woman keeps hers in a little leather pouch.&nbsp; A man has an olde Englishe Coine Cabinette of Woode. </p><p><br /></p><p>You can tell. Once I was clerking for a dealer at an ANA convention and someone came to the table with miscellaneous US silver coins from a dead ancestor.&nbsp; &quot;They smoked,&quot; I said.</p><p><br /></p><p>Be aware, of course, that some &quot;coin doctors&quot; artificially tone coins to cover up problems, like hairline scratches from cleaning.&nbsp; It can make a low MS or even an MS/AU slider look more attractive and disguise the true grade.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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