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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 6597088, member: 105098&quot;]Yes. I have a silver proofset from 2001 that did this. Started with a white haze I noticed in 2006 and has progressed to yellows, burgandy to red and a touch of blue now.</p><p>It&#039;s the beginnings of toning when it&#039;s white and not refracting colors because it&#039;s not thick enough yet to produce colors where the refraction is right (I think refracting is the right term for it). Also it could just be the angle the ike is on and the lighting and it could be going yellow and just positioned to where the color doesn&#039;t show.</p><p><br /></p><p>Toning is also subjective. People have their opinions on it. But then we get off the topic... which is, does toning disqualify a proof coin from ultra cameo?&nbsp; The answer is, no as a strict rule it shouldn&#039;t, but it would be a matter of opinion of the particular graders if a coin qualifies as ultra cameo, with or without toning to begin with. I&#039;d say if you can remove the toning and there would be no question about it being ultra cameo then it should get the designation with the toning.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also likely the toning wasn&#039;t noticeable at the time of slabbing when the coin got the UC designation as it is now, still though it shouldnt necessarily preclude the coin from UC designation.&nbsp; It&#039;s why the phrase &quot;buy the coin, not the holder&quot; is so true. Maybe it&#039;s not something you like and you like toning free blast white proof coins. Toning might increase a price at auction or decrease it because beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Maybe you like toning and want to see how that ike turns out in another 20 years...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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