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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 3658311, member: 24314&quot;]Morgandude11, posted: &quot;Honestly, the merits of toning </p><p>If individuals and TPGs want to reward toned coins for having a colorful, attractive patina, <b><span style="color: #b30000">what is the problem</span></b>?&nbsp; Some people love that patina, and will pay a lot for it.&nbsp; To those collectors, it is like a beautiful impressionistic painting.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The <b><span style="color: #b30000">PROBLEM</span></b> is that we can take a technical MS-63 or 64 coin and have it become beautifully toned by either natural or artificial causes and have it grade MS-67 and sell for very, very, VERY BIG money. </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;If TPGs wish to follow the eye appeal desires of toned coin collectors, and give a coin a bump for attractive patina, what is the big deal?&nbsp; I have seen Morgans getting a bump for being incredibly blast white, so the results are totally analogous.&nbsp; I say again, if one does not like toned coins, and sees that bump as overgrading, DON’T buy those coins.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Ideally, color, eye appeal, whatever would not change the coin&#039;s GRADE; it would just rate a qualifier such as a gold star that would indicate that professionals think it should sell for more money than its assigned grade would indicate.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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