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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 11521764, member: 10461&quot;]To me “artificial toning” implies <i>intent</i>- that somebody deliberately applied chemicals or processes to the coin to hasten its toning in the way they were seeking to change it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, maybe that was the case with this Peace dollar, or maybe not. I don&#039;t know.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I will say that some of the silver coins I cleaned myself acquired similar lightly iridescent pastel toning over 20-25 years in my detector finds album.&nbsp; I did not do anything to tone them myself.&nbsp; Just put them away for a long time.&nbsp; They retoned naturally over the years they spent in the album.&nbsp; Yes, they’re cleaned, and thus not truly original, so I wouldn’t call them “naturally” toned, even though the process did happen slowly and naturally over time.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the distinction I make between <i>artificial</i> and <i>secondary</i> toning.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, I’m not suggesting that the Peace dollar here retoned naturally or was deliberately tinkered with to enhance the color, one way or the other.&nbsp; I’m not qualified to judge.&nbsp; But wouldn’t PCGS have gone with “Questionable Color” if the latter was the case?</p><p><br /></p><p>Or maybe because it was cleaned, that’s all they noted, and did not go further in describing the color?&nbsp; I guess it’s a moot point, since it goes into a “details” holder either way.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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