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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ZoidMeister, post: 4907245, member: 114169&quot;]I won&#039;t disagree with your points,&nbsp; but I did mean toning.</p><p><br /></p><p>My thoughts is that a VF coin has enough circulation on it to have broken down the original luster and would have developed standard circulation &quot;dark gray&quot; toning which would prevent the later development of colorful tones,&nbsp; even if artificially induced.</p><p><br /></p><p>The presence of that colorful toning coupled with the observed remaining luster screams that this is a very lightly circulated,&nbsp; but unfortunately incompletely struck coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>My intuition also tells me that if a coin has developed this level of colorful toning and is reintroduced into circulation,&nbsp; the colors are going to be the first attributes lost.</p><p><br /></p><p>But my intuition has been wrong in the past . . .</p><p><br /></p><p>Z</p><p><br /></p><p>I mean,&nbsp; just how often do you see color toned coins below AU58?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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