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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 3659087, member: 15309&quot;]<span style="color: #000000">I&#039;m curious, why would an uncirculated coin be missing atoms?&nbsp; As long as there is no wear, the chemical change in the formation of the oxide layer doesn&#039;t remove any atoms from the coin.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Well, at least you aren&#039;t pissed at me, that is a bonus.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000">OK, when I brought up this point about untoned coins having an invisible oxide layer, it was in response to Typecoin saying that rainbow toned coins are &quot;damaged&quot;.&nbsp; Therefore, if you are going to consider oxide layers &quot;damage&quot; then every coin is damaged, because every coin has an oxide layer, even those you can&#039;t discern with the naked eye.&nbsp; And anyone who propagates the ridiculous notion that toning is damage will get the same lecture, even though Typecoin doesn&#039;t even believe the point he was making, he was simply trying to win an argument.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">So let&#039;s make a deal, I won&#039;t force you to call a &quot;blast white&quot; coin toned or oxidized as long as you don&#039;t call a rainbow toned coin &quot;damaged.&quot;&nbsp; And yes, I know you just told Morgandude11 that you don&#039;t consider rainbow toning damage, so we should be all good here.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Yep, that is the big fear regarding toned coins, I agree 100% and have been saying the same thing for years.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;re right.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, you grade coins.&nbsp; The higher the grade, the higher the price.&nbsp; To say that your service as a grader doesn&#039;t provide a value for the coin is naive at best.&nbsp; That is the whole point of having a coin graded.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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