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What is Coin Toning? How Does It Affect Coins and Their Value?

Silver dollars at varying levels of toningCoin toning can intrinsically increase or decrease the value of coins. Natural coin toning can be quite beautiful. It can also be outrageously ugly.

And because beauty is often times in the eye of the beholder, placing a value on a coin due to its toning can present problems.

Should you pay extra or less for toned coins? After all, a coin that’s toned is going through a form of corrosion, right?

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