Do You Prefer Toning?

i picked I like some toning I usually like my coins with no toning but if I see a toned coin with nice colors I will pick it up

I like a nicely toned coin. I was digging around in some stuff I haven't looked at for awhile and found a nice 1947 Mexican 5 Peso that's taken on a nice rainbow toning.

I like nice toning. It has to be attractive and not take away from the coin.

For me it sometimes depends on coin. I prefer nice toning on older coins but, want my more modern coins, like American Silver Eagles, perfect. Most of the time I actually prefer nice toning over an unblemished. It's the shadow of the coin's history.

I voted for "dislike any", but in truth my answer would be to "dislike most".

I like coins to look honest. A 500 year old coin shouldn't shine and sparkle like it was made yesterday. Nor should a coin made within the past couple of decades look tarnished or psychedelic.

Some people like certain types of toning. To me, all toning is much the same - it should serve merely as an indicator of age and preservation. I'd never pay a premium for "attractive toning", and I'd expect a discount for "ugly toning" - and my definition of "ugly" would include some of the toned coins that I've seen other people lavish praise upon. But that's just me, and my opinion.

Toning is natural and inevitable. It should neither be removed nor encouraged.

I like my coins to look honest. I would definately prefer toning to an artifically bright (i.e. cleaned or dipped) coin, although I don't know if I would buy a toned coin before a bright natural coin. Guess I have to say 50/50, depends on how the coin looks in hand.

A bit of toning is appropriate on older coins. What I don't want to see is a glaringly bright 19th century silver coin in VF condition, or a psychedelic toned coin from the last 20 years.

Only on a few coins, and they have to really catch my eye. There is no way I would pay a premium price for one, but if it was a decent price and I liked it, then yes, I would buy it.

This reminded me of a story of my favorite little coin shop and a roll of Morgans. I was doing my normal browsing when I overheard a customer asking the owner about a few toned coins in the Morgan section and the price difference between them. She informed him that they do not look at toning as a profit coin and to some people actually decreases the value so they had them marked as a normal price. They started talking about the process and how it happens and she told him that it was completely by accident they found them. Another customer wanted to buy a MS roll of Morgans and when they opened it to go through them they noticed two that were toned, the customer was actually pleased and willing to pay more for the two coins which she said no and gave them to him for the regular price. I asked her about it later and she said that it does not seem fair to mark up the price on a coin for what one person thinks raises the price while next thinks it drops it so they leave them as a normal coin and let the customer decide.