Why are toned coins so popular?

Oh I hope not....

 

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And if there are, I hope it is their boogers and not others.

 

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose but you shouldn't pick your friend's nose...

 

You've got the perfect CT name for that. Just saying!

 

Bigger issue would be if everyone had the same taste for everything the cost would be through the roof for all of it

 

Lyrics
Now believe me when I tell you that my song is really true
I want everyone to listen and believe
It's about some little people from a long time ago
And all the things the neighbors didn't know
Early in the morning daddy dinky went to work
Selling lamps and chairs to San Bernadino squares
And I still remember mama with her apron and her pad
Feeding all the boys at Ed's cafe!
Whizzing and pasting and pooting through the day...
(Ronnie helping Kenny helping burn his poots away!)
And all the while on a shelf in the shed:
Kenny's little creatures on display!
Ronnie saves his numies on a window in his room
(a marvel to be seen: dysentery green)
While Kenny & his buddies had a game out in the back:
Let's make the water turn black
We see them after school in a world of their own
(to some it might seem creepy what they do...)
The neighbors on the right sat and watched them every night
(I bet you'd do the same if they was you)
Whizzing and pasting and pooting through the day...
(Ronnie helping Kenny helping burn his poots away!)
And all the while on a shelf in the shed:
Kenny's little creatures on display!
Ronnie's in the army now and Kenny's taking pills
Oh! how they yearn to see a bomber burn!
Color flashing, thunder crashing, dynamite machine!
(wait till the fire turns green...wait till the fire turns green)
Wait till the fire turns green!
This would be a little bit of vocal teen-age heaven, right here on earth!
Dodn-do-do-dodn-dodn-dodn-dada
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Frank Zappa
Let's Make the Water Turn Black lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.

 

There is measurable science to the progression of authentic toning and to me it's even a bit like an original patina on old furniture. The real thing can't be duplicated and is simply just gorgeous at any age. It's beyond character...if coins and furniture could talk!
After holding and looking at truly a lot of toned coins you really can quickly tell if it's artificial toning rather than from real long-term age, a truly rare and unique "patina".

Fun side note...
There are interviews with Q David Bowers talking about (around 1951) how they used to find these Morgans and things that were toned on only one side from contact with the canvas mint bags for years. And he simply couldn't understand how so many double sided toned coins were showing up because how could the canvas bag be touching both sides of a coin lol! So he knew people who liked them were already finding ways to speed that process up. But he said in the early 50's most dealers and serious collectors just avoided them.