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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;eddiespin, post: 547927, member: 4920&quot;]FWIW, my ideal is, I want to see that master hub on that coin. That&#039;s my MS70, as it&#039;s the closest physical embodiment of the engraver&#039;s (artist&#039;s?) intent. A toned coin...whether NT or AT, it doesn&#039;t make any difference...is a different coin, altogether. It&#039;s like a colorized B&amp;W movie, compared to the original, in which all the director had to work with to control such things as the viewer&#039;s eye-focus, eye-movement, feelings and mood, were techniques such as lighting, shading, clarity and detail. Same thing with respect to a &quot;blast white&quot; coin, wherein the only such technique basically available to that engraver was strike. You introduce just a spot of color to that coin, and your eye focuses right on that spot, I don&#039;t care where it is on the coin. You introduce multiple colors, or &quot;monster&quot; rainbows, and that coin is now so unlike that engraver&#039;s intent, it&#039;s pathetic.</p><p><br /></p><p>Still, don&#039;t read me wrong. I know a lot of young people who won&#039;t even watch a B&amp;W movie, I don&#039;t care how critically-acclaimed it may be, unless it&#039;s colorized. Suffice it to say, I heartily embrace the notion that there&#039;s a real (and &quot;legitimate&quot;) market out there for toned coins. I&#039;m just trying to point out to y&#039;all, these markets are distinctly different. You can never compare a toned coin to a blast white, or vice-versa. For a blast white, one of the things we&#039;re appreciating is the engraver&#039;s intent; and, our eyes are moving through that coin in the manner that engraver intended. By the time that coin takes on toning, forget about that, how the engraver intended you to feel...that&#039;s gone, forever. They&#039;re still killer coins, many of them...but, they&#039;re different. Y&#039;all capice? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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