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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Penny Lady®, post: 639635, member: 16948&quot;]Hey Baja, we are not &quot;marketing&quot; toned coins here - we are discussing their value.&nbsp; And, for the record, in this post especially, I&#039;m going to &quot;pretend&quot; I am &quot;talking to someone who&#039;s played with coins for the past few decades&quot;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; so if you&#039;re in that category, feel free to continue reading if you like.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>And Mike, the &quot;head in the ground&quot; comment was kind of harsh and was sort of a frustrated response to the seemingly endless discussions lately about values of particular coins, especially ones with extraordinary eye appeal.&nbsp; I simply don&#039;t understand how some people, especially those who have been doing this for many years, cannot see the added value of a coin that has exceptional eye appeal.&nbsp; Even a solid brown coin that is oozing luster with grayish or bluish tints (and I have many of these in my personal collection) will sell for a MUCH higher premium than a plain chocolate brown coin of the exact same grade.&nbsp; The ones who just want to pay whatever the &quot;guide&quot; says to pay for a particular year/grade are wearing blinders, IMHO.</p><p><br /></p><p>I agree, of course each toned coin will have a different premium based on the brightness and rainbow-ness of the colors of that coin (and of course quality), and I agree Jack&#039;s coin isn&#039;t as colorful as the one I posted, but his still deserves a premium due to its colorful-ness and eye appeal, perhaps not as much as mine, but still more than an ordinary red one in that same grade.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>And I understand that there are people who do not like toned coins, and that&#039;s absolutely perfectly fine.&nbsp; But I am hoping that those who don&#039;t like toned coins will at least be able to understand the added value an eye appealing colorful coin brings and not think those who pay those premiums are lacking sense or are foolish.&nbsp; That&#039;s the point I&#039;m trying to make.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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