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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JCro57, post: 3015833, member: 92083&quot;]It is definitely a crap shoot as to whether it will or won&#039;t tone, and at what rate it does so. And then whether or not it tones evenly, or spotty, or streaky, or if it goes a golden color, brown, dark brown, blackish, rainbow, or even certain particular colors. And sometimes one side will tone, and the other does not. And sometimes both sides tone, but in different colors or patterns. And sometimes, years apart!</p><p><br /></p><p>There is one thing though that is dishonest about purchasing coins that tone, and that is this: Several people (many of them are dealers or just sellers who aren&#039;t really classified as dealers) will take a slabbed coin that has ugly toning on it that no one is buying, remove it from the slab (called &quot;cracking out&quot;), and then they will dip it to make it a nice white, shiny specimen. They then resubmit it to have more eye appeal in a new slab. However, they will try to sell it quickly because they know very soon it will again start to tone, unbeknownst to an unsuspecting buyer of how ugly it will again become. This is done more commonly then many people think.</p><p><br /></p><p>That is why - when you can - I strongly recommend people to buy slabbed coins in older generation holders; it shows so far they have held up over time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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