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<p>[QUOTE="Leadfoot, post: 684768, member: 2972"]As an aside, I started a similar thread on the PCGS forums. One of the responses there was particularly poignant and bears repeating:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>A main reason the market is flooded with AT coins is simple, supply and demand. When collectors/dealers use the TPGs as a crutch to verify what a colored coin looks like, the buyer begins to spend way too much money on coins that are not worth the money. So, if the buyer spends $75 on an MS64 colored morgan, no worries. But if the buyer spends $2000 on the same coin, the coin doctors would come out in force to supply the marketplace. It's like drugs and law enforcement. Limit the supply, the price goes up, the law tries to enforce, so more is supplied at higher prices, and the cycle continues.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Now that we see a marketplace flooded with questionable coins, the buyer is hesistant to purchase, NT or AT. Until the prices come down to a reasonable level, which has happened with many Morgan dollars, then the impetus for coin doctors will not wane.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>TRUTH"</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Leadfoot, post: 684768, member: 2972"]As an aside, I started a similar thread on the PCGS forums. One of the responses there was particularly poignant and bears repeating: [i]A main reason the market is flooded with AT coins is simple, supply and demand. When collectors/dealers use the TPGs as a crutch to verify what a colored coin looks like, the buyer begins to spend way too much money on coins that are not worth the money. So, if the buyer spends $75 on an MS64 colored morgan, no worries. But if the buyer spends $2000 on the same coin, the coin doctors would come out in force to supply the marketplace. It's like drugs and law enforcement. Limit the supply, the price goes up, the law tries to enforce, so more is supplied at higher prices, and the cycle continues. Now that we see a marketplace flooded with questionable coins, the buyer is hesistant to purchase, NT or AT. Until the prices come down to a reasonable level, which has happened with many Morgan dollars, then the impetus for coin doctors will not wane. TRUTH"[/i][/QUOTE]
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