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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Delawarejones, post: 171240, member: 7008&quot;]<font face="Century Gothic">To cheat or not to cheat that is the question?&nbsp; I am not a chemist, so my observation may be totally inaccurate.&nbsp; I suspect artificial toning IS detectable.&nbsp; You may need a microscope to detect the fake toning, but if man can do it, it can be detected in some way.</font></p><p><font face="Century Gothic"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Century Gothic">Think about it this way, how much pleasure will you have if you take your BU coins and drop whatever chemical it is on them to see pretty rainbows.&nbsp; At first it will be cool, but then boring and no longer desirable.&nbsp; Also, this chemical additive is cheap, which is why I suspect it can be detected, maybe even under 10x loupe.</font></p><p><font face="Century Gothic"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Century Gothic">I have several coins in manilla envelopes toning now.&nbsp; What will they look like in 10 years?&nbsp; I am very exceited to find out.</font></p><p><font face="Century Gothic"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Century Gothic">If everyone toned their coins artificially then at least three things would happen.&nbsp; 1. Values would go down.&nbsp; 2. Untoned coins may go up in value, and 3. Detection of artificial toning would get better.</font></p><p><font face="Century Gothic"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Century Gothic">Cheat if you want, it&#039;s up to you, but then you are not a numismatist.&nbsp; You are merely trying to make a profit.</font></p><p><font face="Century Gothic"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Century Gothic">Delawarejones</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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