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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 2939248, member: 76863&quot;]Questionable the right way to put it.&nbsp; A lot with toning is experience and educated guessing.&nbsp; Nature and do crazy things under the right conditions with the right coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>More importantly though collectors can’t even agree on what artificial toning actually means.&nbsp; Most would agree applying a chemical to the surface to cause toning is artificial but that’s generally where vast agreement ends.&nbsp; Is it artificial if something tones on a desk or near a window?&nbsp; What about if it’s stored in an envelope or napkin?&nbsp; How about if you lose a coin and when you find it it had toned under the computer?&nbsp; Most agree that if a coin tones in an album that’s fine but then some of them will think an elevelope or desk or napkin isn’t fine.&nbsp; Everyone has their own variation on what they do and don’t consider artificial which is a major reason why the trend has moved away from nt vs at and is market acceptable vs not[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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