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Message:: [QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 2197193, member: 27832"]I think Chris just mentioned the "Edge View" holder as part of the timeline -- there was a brief time when NGC noted "white" or "toned" on holders, but that was long before they started using the Edge View holders, and that's why your Edge View holder doesn't have that annotation. I'm not sure why the grading companies stopped noting toning. Maybe they thought it was too subjective, or maybe they realized that the coin can tone after it's put in the slab, resulting in an inaccurate label. (I doubt that, though, given that they still slab copper as "red", "red-brown" or "brown", even though the same things apply.) Today, grading companies don't note toning on the holder unless they think it's artificial or questionable ("questionable color"). In those cases, they put the coin in a "Details" slab, because they view the toning as damage that makes the coin ungradeable. They do consider toning as part of eye appeal, though, and so sometimes particularly pretty toning will earn a coin a "star" (*) annotation.[/QUOTE]