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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 473528, member: 112&quot;]First of all I can&#039;t believe they gave that a star - blows me away. I find the coin quite ugly. That said, I will say that they gave it MS67 because the coin is virtually mark free. There are a few minor hits, but they are well hidden with the splotchy toning and very hard to see. Overall the coin has booming luster.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, the coin is fingerprinted, both sides, and that coupled with the splotchy toning greatly takes away from the eye appeal IMO. Were I grading the coin I would give it no better than a 64 because of this. That to me is where the subjectivity of eye appeal comes greatly into play. I basically hate this type of toning. But that is my personal taste.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now about this type of toning. While I can&#039;t prove it, it has always been my opinion that this type of toning, being as splotchy as it is, is due to one thing - the coin being dipped and not all of the toning being removed. Toning that dark and that thick just doesn&#039;t occur like that naturally. It doesn&#039;t jump from place to place, it covers the entire coin. Yes, the fingerprints account for some of the splotchiness, but only in the areas of the fingerprints themselves. </p><p><br /></p><p>So the only way that the coin could be so lusterous and white in some areas and so darkly and thickly toned in others is if some of the toning was removed. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now sometimes dark thick toning will flake off a coin of its own accord. This is often seen, but the spots where the toning comes off are usually quite small and isolated. It never, ever, occurs on large areas of the coin as it would have had to have done like on this one. Thus I believe that coins with this type of toning, and this look have been dipped. Not that is bad thing necessarily, for imagine if you will what this coin would look like if it were as dark as it is say on the forehead or on the rim by the I in LIBERTY. THAT&#039;S why they dip these coins to begin with.</p><p><br /></p><p>ps - so what do say Leadfoot ? Would this one have been better off left alone as well ? Completely covered with dark, thick, brown toning that resembles a coin covered with decades old varnish ?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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