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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1610837, member: 112&quot;]Everything you asked about makes a difference to somebody, but not to everybody. And some seem more intent on buying coins that will please others instead of buying coins that please themselves.</p><p><br /></p><p>To me there are three things that matter. In order of importance they are : </p><p><br /></p><p>1 - The condition of the coin. This is important because not only can toning make a coin look good, attractive, pretty, (choose your adjective); toning can also cover up, hide, or make flaws hard to see. So the condition of the coin is imperative.</p><p><br /></p><p>2 - The toning must be attractive. That&#039;s the most subjective part because beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And there will always be somebody who thinks a given toned coin is pretty while another thinks it is as ugly as a mud fence. So choose what you like, since it is your coin, and forget what everybody else thinks.</p><p><br /></p><p>3 - Price, I don&#039;t care how pretty a coin may be, it&#039;s not worth stupid money. Worth a premium ? Sure, all day long. But as there is with everything in life there are extremes. And extremes are best left alone in almost all cases. </p><p><br /></p><p>Of course there&#039;s some people who ignore that rule and will pay what I call stupid money, 10x or 20x, or more, than the underlying coin is worth. With nothing else in life will that ever happen. It&#039;s kind of like paying 10 times what a new car or truck actually costs just because it has a custom paint job. Sure the custom paint job is worth more, but that much more ? Not in my lifetime.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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