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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fretboard, post: 686288, member: 19765&quot;]It&#039;s always been a buyer beware arena when buying coins especially since the addition of the internet.&nbsp; With that said if you look on ebay or any other auction or coin selling site available.&nbsp; One thing you can do if you like a coin and you can&#039;t tell if it&#039;s been AT or not.&nbsp; Is look at the sellers other items for sale, surely if they have plenty of more coins that have questionable toning then most likely they have the artificial toning game all figured out.</p><p><br /></p><p>Usually it doesn&#039;t do any good to ask them if a certain coin has been artificially toned b/c some will just say that they don&#039;t know.&nbsp; I think there&#039;s at least a couple who don&#039;t have any shame in taking advantage of the market b/c they don&#039;t see it that way and once again it goes back to supply and demand.</p><p><br /></p><p>Personally I don&#039;t appreciate the artificial toning option that some sellers are using.&nbsp; And then it comes back around to the sellers who have names like &quot;fretboardtoning&quot; (fake example) just to get my point across.</p><p><br /></p><p>The whole idea of AT and pumping up the premiums will be at the forefront of controversy for sometime ahead.&nbsp; We are stuck with it at least until the trend changes.&nbsp; Since I don&#039;t like it, I avoid it.&nbsp; It looks like it&#039;s a free country and you can mess up coins and make more money doing it.&nbsp; I fear that this is another example of <b>&quot;only in America&quot;</b>.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I love this country but I dislike some of the ppl and silly trends&nbsp; that go on here.&nbsp; <b>God Bless America</b>, home of the free and the brave and thankful that I can share my opinion freely.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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