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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 3661157, member: 15309&quot;]So you are saying you&#039;ve never seen an ugly clean well struck lustrous coin?&nbsp; I&#039;m sorry I don&#039;t have a better example, but I&#039;m a collector who focuses on eye appeal so my inventory of ugly coins is limited.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/l25Anw8.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And for the 1000X, I am not bumping a coin because of the eye appeal, I am simply rewarding the luster and eye appeal that are a much higher grade than the surface preservation would deserve from a technical standpoint.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As an experienced toned coin collector, it is the collector&#039;s job to evaluate whether or not the coin was as you say &quot;grade bumped&quot; for color and incorporate that information into his valuation of the coin.&nbsp; Collecting toned coins, which have no established price guides, is the deep end of the numismatic pool, and collectors who only have the ability to multiply the price guide of the assigned grade deserve to drown IMO.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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