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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tmoneyeagles, post: 642663, member: 17557&quot;]Well Doug, there is a difference between a coin doctor, and somebody who lets coins tone. I believe that going through a chemical process to tone a coin just isn&#039;t right. If somebody knows that toned coins sell for a premium, that person will find ways to just make money off of people. Now am I saying all AT coins are ugly? No, some look rather nice. Am I saying you can tell every single coin NT from AT, no, but it IS possible to tell on some coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>But what I am saying is there are some examples of AT coins, that look so ugly, and the colors are just obnoxious, and I see the bids get way up there, and I cannot help but wonder what the feedback will be like, or if it is just a newbie who will join up here and start a new thread about the new coin he bought.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do I think that putting a coin in an envelope and letting it tone and then selling it later is a bad thing? Nope not at all, that is a natural occurrence, that might have been enforced by man, but it is still natural.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do I think throwing the coin in the oven, or using some other chemical process other than heat, to make the coin tone into some obnoxious colors, only to have somebody buy it, but that &quot;somebody&quot; doesn&#039;t know that there are NT and AT, and thinks everything toned naturally? </p><p>Well yes I do think that is bad... If the person wants to do this, but he never sells, or when he does, he states in the auction &quot;I toned this coin&quot; &quot;This coin has artificial toning&quot;, that would be fine by me, because we are aware that the coin is AT, and that he did it, that would be an honest seller. I go back to my earlier point, if this seller did these things to the coin, and cannot say that he/she toned the coin by artificial means, then is hes/she being honest? IMO, no, he/she isn&#039;t being an honest, and they are just getting more money off of other people lack of knowledge. If there is nothing wrong with this process of toning a coin, making it look obnoxious, like a rainbow threw up, why don&#039;t sellers say that it is artificial and that they did something to it?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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