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Message:: [QUOTE="Boxeldercoin, post: 1202216, member: 28494"]The point of this is WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL TONING! I have sent coins in before that were sent back as AT. I would crack them out and send them back in and 90% of the time they came back as original. This was with Morgans. I talked to two major dealers this week who are friends of mine and they said that the toning standards seem to be different for different types of coins. One dealer that I talk with at Central States Coin Show told me he buys all the AT holder coins he can and sends them in to be graded (cracked out of the AT holders) and over 75% come back as original making him a good profit. Coins such as Three cent silvers can be album toned and this is not AT. My point is the Grading services need to have one standard for ALL coins as to what is artificial toning. The only one who seem lose in this whole deal is the collector. I have never had a problem with NGC or PCGS service time and I think they do a service for the novice collector. But they need a standard for what is artificial toning and what is not and let the rest of us know what it is.  This is the last time I will be on coin talk for a while as I am going Small mouth fishing with my son in northern Wisconsin.[/QUOTE]