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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 2120812, member: 15309&quot;]Kurt, nobody is paying a premium for brown splotches.&nbsp; The fact is that most toned coins (both AT &amp; NT) carry absolutely no premium at all.&nbsp; Coins with brown splotches (mottled) toning can usually be purchased at a discount.&nbsp; Whether you agree with it or not, eye appeal is a factor in grading in our current system (market grading).&nbsp; The only coins that drive huge premiums are those that have exceptional eye appeal.&nbsp; And despite the baseless claims made by some of the people in this thread, they are not easy to reproduce and they are indeed, RARE!</p><p><br /></p><p>Do you really think that these two coins should be valued the same?</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o59/ACPitBoss/Picture050.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://dyn1.heritagestatic.com/lf?set=path%5B1%2F1%2F8%2F2%2F4%2F11824970%5D%2Csizedata%5B840x2000%5D&amp;call=url%5Bfile%3Aproduct.chain%5D" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>It seems that all of you guys who disagree with the applied standards with relation to toning also have a problem with the TPG standards (market grading) in general.&nbsp; And almost all of you wish that the ANA standards ruled the day.&nbsp; But guess what, you guys will still be unhappy even if you had your way.&nbsp; Coin grading is subjective by nature no matter which standards you use, and the results will always include a certain level of inconsistency.</p><p><br /></p><p>Furthermore, your shot at hall is misguided.&nbsp; The TPGs have been grading toned coins long before they drove ridiculous premiums like they do now (eg the rattler Morgan shown in this thread).&nbsp; The premiums related to toned coins is a natural result of supply and demand.&nbsp; The advances of digital photography and the expansion of the internet brought increased the exposure of rainbow toned coins dramatically.&nbsp; No longer relegated to the back rooms of the coin shop, now they were on full display for the world to see.&nbsp; Huge numbers of collectors saw them and said &quot;I want that.&quot;&nbsp; The supply was unchanged while the demand boomed, thus toning premiums were born.&nbsp; The only thing the TPGs control is to decide which coins are market acceptable and which are not.&nbsp; But I don&#039;t see any difference between that subjective decision and the decision as to what grade is on the label.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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