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Message:: [QUOTE="cpm9ball, post: 972017, member: 24633"]AG, On a scale of 1-70, it seems appropriate, at least to me, that I give you a "3" for this thread. While I believe that you are entitled to your opinion, I do not believe that you are the spokesperson for the entire numismatic community, so please dispense with the "we" stuff.  Furthermore, you've committed one of "my holy sins" by claiming that nowhere else in the history of collectibles does anyone want toned, hazed, marbled, iridescent, splotchy or colored items. Try selling an 18th century Chippendale secretary desk that would normally command a $150K price tag after it has been refinished, destroying the natural patina and all of the human markings that came with its use. As was previously mentioned, we're not talking about baseball cards nor are we talking about comic books. You've also implied that this market preference for toners was the result of dealers having such coins in their inventory who wanted to "dump" (my word) them on the collecting public which is also inaccurate. As a matter of fact, collectors were actively seeking the prized toners long, long before the dealers realized that they were so popular. It has only been within this past decade that dealers were finally realizing the immense popularity of this toner niche that was created by the collectors. By the way, LTrain's Morgan is not AT nor are the ones below. It may interest you to know that I paid a fair premium for every one of these, but those prices were still well below what the market would ordinarily dictate. Finally, it may also interest you to know that, according to the ANA Grading Standards for US Coins, silver, being a chemically reactive metal, has a tendency to tone naturally over time, but nowhere does the guidebook refer to this toning as being a form of damage.  Chris[/QUOTE]

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