What do you like?

bballboy

Toned or not?

mgoodm3

light toning.

ConstellatioCollector

NOT!!!

ibzman350

yes

dollardude

Both! I like the brilliance of a high-luster uncirculated silver dollar. I also like, for example, beautiful toning like a rainbow. Silver probably provides the best medium for beautiful toning, although there are also nicely toned copper and gold coins also.

wjd283

I've never owned a nice pretty toned coin,so I like them "not".

Tootawl

<< <i>NOT!!! >>

Peaceman

I mostly like blast white but will buy a coin with "character" once in a while.....

DorkGirl

I'm in the both camp. I love the right toning, I love blast white.

Purple73

White

braddick

<< <i>Toned or not? >>

Coins and women should be toned.

Myqqy

I like both, unless it comes to bust halves, which should not be white......

Yousri

BIG NOT.

smiles72

I like Y-Ts

tsacch

I like em both, if i had equal grade coins side by side, i would have a hard time not taking the toner

michael

i like toned

but

any coin that is an interesting coin to me and with amazing eye appeal and some value is my number one choice


michael

coincollector1989

Both

magikbilly

I like tone - original surfaces. Originality (or as near as you are going to get). I will select the milky, hazy original undipped Proof Mercury 10c every day over an obviously dipped example - as so many are.

Best,
Billy

Luvdawgs

I don't like dipped, but like blast white and nicely toned equally well.

dimples

BLAST white for me please

ziggy29

I like the luster to show through strongly, but I prefer original, unmessed with luster. When it comes through relatively attractive and not too heavy toning, it's perfect. Mostly (or all) white is fine too, as long as it looks like it hasn't been messed with (which may be the case with coins less than 100 years old, but not with, say, Bust coinage). A blast white Walker or Merc, for example, doesn't look ridiculous. A "blast white" coin from 1830 does.

I'd take a carefully, lightly dipped coin over a dark, unattractive (to my eye) toner, but ideally I can find a coin that's mostly bright and lustrous but with enough "character" and originality to show with at least some nice peripheral toning.

I think the best example of the type of luster/toning I look for might be my SLQ. Plenty of brightness and luster show up in the coin, but it has a nice peripheral toning to suggest it hasn't been excessively messed with:



I also like coins that have an even, light gray patina over the entire coin, but again, allow the luster to come through when you examine it under the light. I think my Shield nickel and Seated half are the two best examples of this in my collection -- they look bright and cheery under the lamp or in the sunlight, but don't have that stripped-and-dipped look.

dorkkarl

<< <i>What do you like? Toned or not? >>

yes, definitely.

K S

Baley

I have coins of all types in silver, copper, and gold, in grades from AG to Gem BU and Proof, and I like them all for different reasons.

But for uncirculated silver coins, my favorite look is pale silver to golden centers, with darker reddish to bluish toning about the rims.

manlye1

Orig. Toned it the best!