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Nice coin. Attractive Barber halves are hard to find. (View Post)

The best artificially toned coins are only known as such by the coin doctors who created them. If in doubt, pass. I'd never pay a huge toning premium for a coin. (View Post)

He assembled the nicest set of Barber Halves I have ever seen. These coins are particularly difficult to find nice; in any Unc. grade. Yet every one of them had "that look." He was also goo… (View Post)

There are too many shows. Long Beach is next week. A large show every week or two I don't think is a good thing. (View Post)

Toning did not get a grade bump until the early 2000s. I started seeing a one grade bump for some attractively toned coins around 2003 or 2004. I bought an attractively toned 38 D Buffalo Nickel in M… (View Post)