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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;nerosmyfavorite68, post: 25341413, member: 134416&quot;]Dad visits the shop about once a month.&nbsp; Perhaps I&#039;ll ask him to scope the prices of rainbow toners.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, I realize the tones are probably phoney, and I would avoid that on ancient coins (there&#039;s one dealer who puts naval jelly or something similar on them, yuck), and I can&#039;t explain why, but it doesn&#039;t bother me as much with U.S.&nbsp; I guess it&#039;s because I don&#039;t really collect machine-made coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also avoid slabs on ancient coins. My only slabs are presents from that store.&nbsp; They&#039;ve had a nice touch lately; raw ancients (generally not horrible) for $20.&nbsp; That can really help get new collectors interested.</p><p><br /></p><p>If the toners are north of 225, I&#039;ll just settle for a regular example and be done with it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I prefer toners like these in ancient coins:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1620746[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1620747[/ATTACH] (the above Khrusru II is golden-toned)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1620748[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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