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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1857324, member: 112&quot;]What I said is true, and the fact that it is true is partly why the outrageous prices for some toned coins dropped so much in the past few years - because they were getting proliferate. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I guess it depends on how you define &quot;wide, large scale&quot;. Thirty years ago, yeah only a few people knew how to do it, but they did know how and they did do it. There has always been a portion of the collector community that liked and would pay premiums for nicely toned coins. But 30 years ago the market for toned coins was but a fraction of the size it is today. The toned coin market didn&#039;t start really taking off until the early 2000&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Today there are a whole lot more people who know how to artificially tone coins, and yes those coins will be cleanly graded. In fact many of them have been graded. But does every Tom, Dick, and Harry know how to do it ? No, they don&#039;t. But it isn&#039;t hard, it doesn&#039;t cost much, and it can be done in hours.</p><p><br /></p><p>But every Tom, Dick, and harry does know that if you take white coins and put them in older coin albums, store them under the right conditions for anywhere from a few months to a few years - the result will be that some of the coins will have the nice toning so highly desired and sought after.</p><p><br /></p><p>I call that a wide large scale.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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