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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 2125354, member: 15309&quot;]You make a good point that coins with ugly toning should be penalized with respect to grade.&nbsp; But I will tell you why I have trouble caring.&nbsp; I am an &quot;eye appeal&quot; collector first and foremost.&nbsp; I don&#039;t buy ugly coins!&nbsp; So I am insulated from what you are complaining about because those coins never end up in my collection.&nbsp; That said, the TPGs do penalize coins for some toning as I stated previously.&nbsp; You are just uncomfortable with where they draw the line.&nbsp; But Kurt, that is the subjective nature of the beast.&nbsp; If they changed the policy to accommodate your taste, it would certainly tick off somebody else, wouldn&#039;t you say?</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not sure I agree with your statement that aesthetic tastes change over time.&nbsp; If you are referring to the fact that 30 years ago most collectors preferred blast white coins compared to the increasing number of modern collectors who prefer toned coins, I would say that the collectors 30 years ago didn&#039;t have a choice.&nbsp; The internet didn&#039;t exist, and dealers didn&#039;t display or advertise toned coins.&nbsp; Do you know how many collectors join this website and see rainbow toned coins for the first time and exclaim how they had no idea that coins with color even existed?</p><p><br /></p><p>You won&#039;t see them in threads like this because this thread is a beehive and they don&#039;t wanna get stung.&nbsp; But I promise there are some lurkers who learned a whole heck of a lot about toned coins by reading this thread.&nbsp; And that is the reason I defend them from ignorant posts like the one made by the OP.&nbsp; I don&#039;t want their first impression of toned coins to be that toned coins are a fraud, because they are not.</p><p><br /></p><p>In my experience, eye appeal never goes out of style.&nbsp; And that is not to say that only rainbow toned coins can exhibit eye appeal.&nbsp; I posted a link to my registry set a few pages ago.&nbsp; Check it out and you will find many coins without rainbow toning that have excellent eye appeal.&nbsp; Heck, you don&#039;t even need to do that, just look at my avatar.&nbsp; Eye appeal rules, the toilet paper coins can be someone else&#039;s problem.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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