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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 449951, member: 112&quot;]Lehigh I understand your reasoning for your collection, you and I have discussed this before. And as I have said in this thread, there is no better reason.</p><p><br /></p><p>But toned coins only began to become popular to the point where people would pay any premium in 2003. Prior to that, the rage for coins, again at the time as you say, was blast white. Go visit the PCGS and NGC forums, blast white coins will be what you find in the posts of 2001 &amp; 2002.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes you will find some posts where the more advanced and respected members post pics of their original skinned and toned coins. And you will find that those posts are the ones that explain the reasoning for owning coins with original skin. Only then did the people who frequent the forums even become aware of this. And it took several years of these posts before the popularity took hold and the fad of owning blast white coins began to fade. Even today you will find many collectors who want nothing else but blast white dipped coins. They hold to the illusion that blast white indicates originality, when nothing could be further from the truth.</p><p><br /></p><p>So yes, the popularity of toned coins and the willingness of some to pay premiums for them is a fact today. But it has only been a fact for a few short years. And as I said previously, as history tells us, that will likely change.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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