Sounds to me like you are the one with the bias. If they can detect AT and recognize it as easily as you claim, then why is it they call toning...
Sure, all of them are. Everything from the paint on your walls, the carpet on your floors, the type of heating/cooling system you have, to what...
Yes it is, and cardboard usually has more of it. Think of it this way, cardboard is nothing more than thick paper, so the thicker the paper is,...
I'd phrase it differently, I'd say when nobody can tell it doesn't matter. Ya see, the TPGs freely admit they cannot tell AT from NT, and they...
They are all pretty much the same unless somebody has started making archival quality envelopes that I am unaware of. But there is never any...
I'd be willing to bet that you have seen such coins, you just assumed it was natural toning. But that's the thing, because it is impossible to...
Yes, some does. Just not all of it. Yes, but those same colors can be induced in a matter of hours by somebody who knows what they are doing....
Take them out of the tube. Put each one in a paper coin envelope. Some of the most spectacular toning that anyone has ever seen came about as a...
Yes. But be aware, toning, on all coins, begins the instant after a coin is struck. How fast it occurs depends upon all of the variables involved....
In the eyes of the TPGs a coin having verdigris on it is not and never has been a reason for not grading a coin. I couldn't even begin to guess...
Yeah, I know. That's why I made the suggestion that I did.
Fairly common. And yeah I know that's probably not the kind of answer you want but that's about the only kind of answer you can get. There simply...
Do yourself a favor and just send pics of the coin to Dan Sedwick, he's pretty much the foremost expert there is. You should be able to contact...
I disagree, but OK. Here's a more specific answer - In interpreting the Seventh Amendment, judges soon encountered a problem. To which “common...
The term carbon spots has become something of a colloquialism, a catch all phrase if you will, used to describe just about any dark colored spots...
Actually it's because they (the TPGs) don't have any choice but to call it that. They know as well as I do that there is simply no way, that...
Thanks for the kind words. And you're right, intent cannot be proved. But do you know why ? It's because when artificial toning is done correctly...
And nobody disputes that Paul. Well, except for that part about TPG certification providing liquidity in the marketplace. Granted, it does for...
Looking at the coin in question, even when I blow it up 400%, I can't tell for sure what that mark is, but it's definitely not a contact mark. My...
You're welcome. And no, that's not true at all. You see, I learned many years ago that it is the nature of open discussion to stray off course and...
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