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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1029243, member: 26302&quot;]I would concur with Lehigh. He is an expert in toning and he says that collectors shy away and devalue charcoal coins. I would add that they are right to. I have dipped some, and seen many more dipped, black or dark charcoal coins. When toning gets even charcoal, and definitely when black, the luster is definitely impaired. Many times there is even corrosion of the metal beneath the luster, forever scarring the coin. This is precisely why coins in the old days were retoned, if when dipped there was scarring from excessive toning, coin &quot;doctors&quot; would retone the coin trying to hide this fact. This is why toned coins carried a negative premium for years, because toning can hide this fact.</p><p><br /></p><p>I may not know or understand much about modern pricing of toned coins, but I know, seen, and have done that. Black toning means coin damage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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