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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1304799, member: 112&quot;]Howdy Epi - Welcome to the Forum !</p><p><br /></p><p>You asked a simple question. Well the answer is a simple one too - you don&#039;t. But the explanation for that answer is quite complicated.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many people have mistaken ideas or beliefs about toning, they think of it as being black and white, that it is either natural or artificial. Well that&#039;s true in a way, but the problem is that there is no difference between natural and artificial toning. They are exactly the same. They look exactly the same and they are caused by exactly the same things. The one, and only, difference they have is that natural toning occurs by accident and artificial toning is done on purpose. And contrary to what many will tell you, nobody, and that includes the foremost experts, can tell one from the other. They can guess, but they can never know.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I do need to put a caveat in here. When I say these things I am talking about well done artificial toning - where somebody does a good job. There are of course those who attempt to artificially tone a coin who have no idea what they are doing and make a botched job of it. Poorly done artificial toning is usually easily recognized by those with experience and often even by a novice.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I could go on and on, but it would take a book to explain it all. And is has after all been explained and discussed at great length many times on this forum. So instead I would ask you to do a search and read for yourself. Be prepared to take a while, probably several days, for I was being quite literal when I said it would take a book. But to help you out I would restrict your search to looking in the US Coins section and the Coin Chat section. Use the Advanced Search function, use toning as your key word, and use my name in the User Name box. </p><p><br /></p><p>That will bring up a lot of threads on the subject for you. In those threads you will see not only my thoughts, but the thoughts of everybody else as well. There are a lot of opinions about toning but there are a lot of facts too. Not everybody differentiates between those things and many often mistake one for the other, especially when they disagree with personal beliefs.</p><p><br /></p><p>But you read for yourself. And with a little effort you&#039;ll soon know most of what there is to know <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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