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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EyeEatWheaties, post: 976981, member: 26972&quot;]Yay..&nbsp; The man himself finally wrote a response to me!&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The benefit??&nbsp;&nbsp; Didn&#039;t I just I read something from you that all coins have toning or will and do tone?&nbsp; &nbsp; Help me out, I would think coloring or re-coloring would be a surface application?? Does re-coloring mean that the coin was colored before it was polished?&nbsp; Ok I&nbsp; feel better now I just had to be the intelligent donkey. I would have hoped your first message to me would have been more intelligent.&nbsp; Ok ..&nbsp; all jokes/ribbing aside.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am not a professional conservationist (obviously) I do not have a&nbsp; degree in metallurgy. I am a hobbyist. A collector of Lincoln Cents.&nbsp; I&nbsp; should mention I also, do buy coins as an investment or as a savings&nbsp; account, but mostly just cause I currently like getting as many as I&nbsp; can. This whole subject of toning is just one facet of the hobby that I&nbsp; enjoy meddling with.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin was &quot;gassed&quot; similar with the way Thad&#039;s product will work if I remember what I read from him on it. In order to remove the current color on that 19s, you would have to wipe vigorously under pressure or I guess dip - which I know nothing about.&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><b>1.</b> One benefit is that now the coin will not likely take on &quot;carnival&quot; or &quot;artificial&quot; color(s)s as time goes on.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><b>2.</b> Another benefit would be in creating or establishing or discussing current value that a coin has in its various states.&nbsp; For example, I could post both pictures on eBay with no description and see which one sells for the most, which one gets the most views, etc etc.&nbsp; It would be an interesting test.&nbsp; Especially since the &quot;before&quot; coin doesn&#039;t show the dents and dings the way the &quot;after&quot; coin does.&nbsp; BTW I never noticed the off center strike on this coin until now.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>3.</b> Another benefit: And most important IMO is for the sake of education for everyone who has read this far. I am sharing what I know to work and sometime not work. </p><p><br /></p><p><b>4.</b> Another benefit for me, is to get people who post on here, who have an opinion, to voice it so that I learn more. I just learned that sticking a penny in my pants is another method to age/tone/color.&nbsp; I heard of ants in your pants, but pennies in your pants?&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> So cool! Learn something everyday!&nbsp; That&#039;s almost as good as the guy who prefers brown over pink. lol&nbsp; good stuff!</p><p><br /></p><p>From what I have read over the last few days from you (which is a minuscule fraction of your 26k posts)&nbsp; is that I gather you are a long time serious collector, who writes very well and has an extensive deep knowledge of US coins and is eager to share your knowledge. I respect that.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So, since you are having a hard time seeing benefits.&nbsp; maybe you just need your glasses adjusted.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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