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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1135869, member: 26302&quot;]I hear what you say Winged, and you are prudent to want certified examples if you are unsure of the coin. I would just say toning is such an esoteric area that I would be nervous of paying such high multiples slabbed or not unless you are convinced you yourself am an expert. TPGers have made many errors over the years, and with toning their opinion has changed dramatically. I am not sure how much long term value their opinion will hold.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will put it this way. Yes, the coin was &quot;pretty&quot;. Yes, its a very unusual, esoteric, bright toning. I am not a toning expert per se, but if in the tens of thousands of coins I have handled I have never seen such toning, personally I would be wary of paying such a high premium for it. I have seen the colorful toned Morgans that now people label &quot;monsters&quot; come out of old collections. I have seen the toning Lehigh values so much come out of collections. The only time I have seen toning like that was in a fire job, where the salvagable coins looked similar, hence my blowtorch comment. This is the reason I was advising caution. If you like toned coins, (and I do, I have always loved pretty original coins), maybe try some more conventional toning. One great area for this is old commemoratives, they were mostly silver, and put away in storage devices that led to toning. There are many extremely pretty coins in that series, and right now for some reason that series is being overlooked. Good value to me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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