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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2108747, member: 71723&quot;]Oh man, don&#039;t get me started on toning! I&#039;ll get in rules trouble, because I can&#039;t discuss the toning fetish (either way - blast white OR worshipping toning) without cussing a blue streak!</p><p><br /></p><p>I maintain more money is being thrown away chasing the toning fetish than on any other part of numismatics. No one understands toning is my theory. Toning is about chemistry and physics (particularly wave interference physics) and that&#039;s too much like real work for most coin people.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example, how many &quot;Professional Numismatists&quot; do you suspect know that thiourea can either add or remove toning from a silver coin depending on whether an acid or base is paired with it? &quot;Almost none&quot; is the correct answer. I put Professional Numismatists in air quotes above because even if you make a living in coins and DON&#039;T know this, you STILL don&#039;t deserve the title Professional.</p><p><br /></p><p>How many know that Eastman Kodak published a formula for cleaning darkroom towels that can be used as a coin dip that is 10,000x gentler to coin surfaces than e-Z-est is? Just you, me, and anybody else who reads this.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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