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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2902731, member: 112&quot;]To answer the question posed, what is acceptable ? As mentioned that is an individual choice because for the most part it&#039;s nothing more than a matter of taste - chocolate and vanilla. For me, with the coin posted by the OP as an example, no that is not acceptable. That is terminal toning. </p><p><br /></p><p>But I think I must mention that terminal toning is in itself a somewhat subjective term. We can call it what it is because of what we see - when the toning is black it is referred to as terminal. But we don&#039;t really know, can&#039;t ever really know if it is truly terminal unless and until we remove it. And that is because the definition of terminal is that of having done irreparable damage. And unless we remove it we cannot see if it has or not. And this follows because of what I said above - you cannot see through it. So when we use the term terminal toning, it is an assumption, an assumption based on what we have learned from past experience because we have removed so many times and found irreparable damage underneath it. However, it is important to also acknowledge that sometimes, just sometimes, there is no irreparable damage. It just hasn&#039;t progressed quite that far yet.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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