List Of Sellers Of Fake Toned Coins On eBay

As a public service, I am starting this thread in order to help anyone tempted to buy some toned coins. I think naturally toned coins are so beautiful, but manually toned coins are like collecting fake $20 bills.

Please post here your sellers of fake toned coins on eBay. Here is one I outed today. Had a nice looking penny, only one side toned, then i see they have many. Says they are toned, but not artificially.

Its just impossible to have many toned coins with same colors that are not manually toned. Before you buy a toned coin, check their other auctions to see if that is the bulk of what they sell, or cleaned coins if you don't want them either.

beachegrl1

 

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This clown was the king of fake, juiced photos that did not come close to what you got. Finally adjusted his pics a little to show actual photo & says its artificially toned.

morgandealer

What you think you are buying:

Fake Rainbow Toning by Chris Winkler posted Jul 10, 2020 at 9:41 AM

What you get:

Poop Morgan by Chris Winkler posted Jul 10, 2020 at 9:41 AM

 

@Lehigh96 has posted informative posts concerning toning here in the past, along with others. I am sure he would remember the other good toned experts who also posted about them that people could also look at old posts and read.

Knowledge is always your best line of defense in collectibles.

 

Yet another one with fake toning: bdoubrava12012

 

I bought this one from Beachegrl1. I too thought they must have been artificially toned. But I didn't try to call her out. Just took it on the chin. Thanks to CT, I'm learning.

 

Back in the early '60s, when my Father introduced me to numismatics, toned coins were considered "damaged" coins (at least to my Father). Dad said the goal was to collect coins in conditions as close as possible to when they dropped from the dies. Dad would keep his coins wrapped in thin sheets of aluminum foil. It protected the coins and he always knew when I had sneaked a peak (Ouch!).

I appreciate the beauty of toned coins (natural or otherwise), but avoid them like the plague...natural or otherwise.

 

I agree all were baked. Coins CANNOT tone that way. Others here can explain it better than I can, I just know this is impossible.

 

Your father was following conventional wisdom. Part of that wisdom was because for years nefarious sellers would AT tone problem coins to hide the damage. This is why all toned coins were immediately suspect. An old dealer around since the 40's showed me how the AT was done. It produces a very convincing AT, (way better than what is pictured here), if there was still luster left. No, I do not discuss in public how its done.

 

Dad's argument was simple...deterioration of the metal (attractive or otherwise) is PMD.