What Happened To My Toning, PCGS?

Dont wanna rain on the parade but isn't toning easily faked and a bit dubious when buying ?I seen some toned coins go for huge prices on ebay then read about how easy it is to fake.

I don't mind colouful toning but personally I think this coin looked better for the dipping. But that is only my opinion. There seems to be a fine line between what some call toning and what I call tarnish.

Having said that this isn't my coin, and it isn't the PCGS's coin, therefore they had no right to dip it without authority from the owner.

You should get to keep your own coins the way you like them. I would have to complain to the TPG about what they have done to this coin. You have good, plentiful, photographic evidence, so why not complain. You should be compensated, unless it specifically says in their information that they may do this without your consent.

I actually had something like this happen to my 1914 quarter eagle I sent in for grading. It came back a whole more lustrous then it went it. I do not know if it was just me looking at it through the flip for the short time I had it or what..lol

I think it might be the slab knocking down the toning. Its so nice looking outside the slab. It makes you want to crack it out and see it

I am appalled to think that anyone would mess with a coin I paid them good money to have them alter it.
Unless it was a restoration service and I knew it in the first place that I was asking for an improvement of a problem coin.... No way!

The original images of your nice toned dime show quite a change down there at the rim by the motto.
Especially there below the E in "we" and T in "trust". It almost looks to me like something was built up there on the rim and now when it is the slab it looks as if that situation there has changed and disappeared.

I have never sent a coin to be graded, I will buy a slabbed coin, but both my brother and father have, and they both claim they got back a lesser switched coin. Of those involved were one of the 1932 mintmarked quarters and either the 1885 or 1886 V nickels. That was enough for me to stay away from sending coins out.

I might take a chance and stand in line at a large coin show sometime and get one slabbed on the spot if the chance comes up. I do have a good number I'd love to have slabbed.