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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 320373, member: 4626&quot;]Well I paid G-4 money for it, and with F details, I&#039;m happy with it, and I don&#039;t think the dark toning, or corrosion, or whatever else you want to call it, detracts from the appearance signficantly.&nbsp; For being as dark as it is, the color is mostly uniform and it doesn&#039;t have any obvious pitting or discoloration to it.&nbsp; Perhaps the photo is just not very flattering to it.&nbsp; Again maybe I&#039;m just more forgving than some, but I rate coins based on whether I myself find it appealing, not against some arbitrary scale someone else set up for the sake of pretending their subjective opinions constitute some objective fact.&nbsp; (Can probably tell I&#039;m not a huge fan of slabbed coins).</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, all &quot;toned&quot; coins are &quot;corroded&quot; in chemical terms, but I don&#039;t see anyone badmouthing them.&nbsp; Which proves that &quot;corrosion&quot; is just fine with people if it fits within their subjective criteria as being attractive.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure if this thing was all sort of bizarre colors like green, blue, red, and purple people would call it &quot;monster toning&quot; instead of &quot;corrosion,&#039; but since it&#039;s spotty black, I guess the pejorative applies.&nbsp; Well I can play that game too, and by my own subjective criteria I&#039;ll call this &quot;darkly toned&quot; rather than &quot;corroded.&quot;&nbsp; How about &quot;antiqued&quot;?</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway don&#039;t read too negative a tone into this.&nbsp; I won&#039;t deny I get a little annoyed when I can&#039;t get people to see things the way I do, but I do concede that in the end, all opinions, my own included, are purely subjective in the end.&nbsp; If you&#039;re all willing to concede that too I guess we can reasonably get along.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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