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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;WingedLiberty, post: 1232813, member: 26030&quot;]Thanks for your endorsement <b>GDJMSP</b>, I know how experienced you are and your opinion carries a lot of weight!</p><p><br /></p><p>Interesting discussion on toned gold.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s a wild one you posted <b>tonedcoins</b>. I LOVE the way the coin on the bottom of your post looks (the 1923 obverse), I would buy that one in a second!!&nbsp;&nbsp; However, on the top coin you posted (the 1924),&nbsp; I sort of agree with <b>medoraman</b>, to my eye the 1924 Saint looks more a bit more questionable than the coin in the OP (just my opinion) -- although toned coins is certainly not an easy straight-forward sub-area of coin collecting -- and is subjective at best.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Even with that, I still think it&#039;s possible that PCGS could slap a questionable color on the OP coin, even though NGC blessed it. </p><p><br /></p><p>CT member <b>robec</b> emailed me a picture of this 1908 Saint owned by a <i>PCGS messageboard member</i> named <b>toneddollars</b>. I like the way the photo below looks -- and to my eye looks more &quot;natural&quot; than the bright pink colored SG posted above (it might just be an imaging problem though).<b>&nbsp; robec</b> also said that there was some controversy about this 1908 Saint&nbsp; on the PCGS and NGC message boards with some saying AT and some NT.&nbsp; He did verify that toned gold is scarce (a fact that nobody would argue with), especially with any kind with rainbow type coloring. He did add that most of the dedicated (expert) gold collectors like &quot;crusty dark-toned&quot; gold -- I am guessing because there is less question about it&#039;s originality.&nbsp; I have to admit that darker toned gold is really pretty and does look more natural.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]131458.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the things I like about the 1926 Indian posted in the O.P (and again below) is it&#039;s&nbsp; a tiny bit darker in shade than the massive numbers of dipped gold&nbsp; coins out there -- whether that qualifies it as &quot;crusty, dark-toned&quot;&nbsp; gold, I have no idea.&nbsp; Here is the 1926 Indian again, just so people don&#039;t have to flip back to page 1 to see it.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]131462.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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