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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2755937, member: 112&quot;]I&#039;m pretty sure you already know the answer. But I think, and I&#039;ll stress think, you&#039;re allowing the exceedingly dark toning to throw you off. Or, put another way, thinking that the dark toning makes it difficult or maybe even too difficult to grade the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, the answer is simple, you grade it the same way you grade any other coin. Using your grading criteria you examine the coin, and based on what you see or don&#039;t see the grade is established.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I&#039;ll grant you, things are not as easy to see when a coin has toning as dark as this. Some of that toning is terminal in my opinion, most of the rest not far from it. But by your own words, since you mention a strikethrough, you CAN see what you need to see. Sometimes you just have to look at things more closely or more carefully. And tilting a coin under a light so you can see hairlines, contact marks, judge the quality of luster or lack thereof, judge the quality of strike, centering, eye appeal, planchet quality, etc etc allows you do that, even when the coin is this darkly toned.</p><p><br /></p><p>The one thing I don&#039;t know is if by your question what you are really asking is does the exceedingly dark toning play a part in establishing the grade; or, should it possibly even prevent the coin from getting a straight grade ? </p><p><br /></p><p>Is that what you are asking ?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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