Artificially Toned Coins

Well said, agree completely.



to the CCF!

Try to explain to those who don't collect coins that you recently spent $50 or more on a penny because of some error, or that you paid $100 for a silver dollar.

My point is that we all have different interests and if one wants to spend their money on something so be it.

With respect to AT..... it's such a slippery slope for me... for instance someone who puts their coins in a book for 20 years and opens it up to see it full of toned coins... is that AT? What about a person who intentionally puts the coins in a book with the hope that the coins will tone? The act is the same only the intention is different... now is one AT and one legit toning?

I just recently pulled some coins out of a place that I stored some with the goal of them toning.... some turned out pretty nice... others very unappealing... but they all were different... I have no idea how one can tell the difference between AT and legit toning.. and perhaps that criteria needs to be established first...

I cannot disagree with the principle underlying that statement. However, even though you can pay $100,000 for a totaled Chevy Cobalt if you wish, reselling it down the road might be....problematic.




There can never be such a thing as "legitimate criteria," since one can effortlessly duplicate toning even the experts would call "original," and coins which toned by a process even the experts would consider "original" sometimes come out with a look those experts would still call "fake."

There is only "market acceptable" and "not."

Bingo.

The terms artificial toning and natural toning are meaningless. The preferred description is whether or not the toning is market acceptable.