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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CopperCollector, post: 59539, member: 3582&quot;]Buying coins is very strongly a matter of preference and/or future market projection.</p><p><br /></p><p>In my opinion, toning is not an issue in coin grading. It factors into the picture at another level. It can affect the coin’s price but not it’s grade. This is where we start using such adjectives as &quot;attractive rainbow toning&quot; and so on.</p><p><br /></p><p>The “rainbow” toned coins above (some computer art) are representative of actual “rainbow” toned coins that came about mainly by mistake. As I understand it, they were chemically altered by the acids in early coin albums. So, in this sense, all “rainbow” coins have been chemically altered. </p><p><br /></p><p>I wonder how many &quot;rainbow&quot; coins being sold today are “real” or accidental &quot;rainbow&quot; coins? </p><p><br /></p><p>I think the whole thing comes down to how one looks at coinage. Some are thinking more mechanical, factual, original--while others tend more toward the emotional, historical&nbsp; (human), side.&nbsp; Both are legitimate and the two sides work together very nicely.</p><p><br /></p><p>To me, when I hold an old coin I love to think about the thousands of people who held it before me. I love the coin for what it is but the fact that it may have been lost on the battlefield gives it extra interest.</p><p><br /></p><p>Okay, I’m I hopeless romantic&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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