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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 2128624, member: 15309&quot;]These two prove that Teletrade did hold some rainbow toned only auctions.&nbsp; However, it does not prove that they were weekly events.&nbsp; For the record, I wasn&#039;t collecting rainbow toned coins in 2001, I started in 2002.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>These screen shots are not talking about rainbow toned only auctions.&nbsp; Teletrade used a designation (the little rainbow tag) so that you could easily find rainbow toned coins within each auction that contained both toned and untoned coins.&nbsp; I remember the rainbow tag well and used it often.&nbsp; It is similar to the David Lawrence Star designation show here:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o59/ACPitBoss/Screenshot2012-02-01at34116AM.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>It was simply a way to separate the rainbow toned coins from the untoned coins, not a rainbow toned coin only auction.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Again, your examples show that Teletrade did run some rainbow toned only auctions, but you have not proven that they ran weekly for 12 years.&nbsp; I searched Teletrade regularly from 2005 till they were bought out, and I don&#039;t ever remember seeing a rainbow toned only event.&nbsp; Could there have been a special event or two that I missed?&nbsp; Certainly, but I would not have missed weekly rainbow toned only auctions.&nbsp; We will call it a semi-bluff.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No need for an excuse, despite your obvious contextomy.&nbsp; I have added the sentence that you felt the need to delete, it is in red within your quote.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Do you want people to believe that rainbow toned coins are common because there are dealers who specialize in selling rainbow toned coins?&nbsp; My point in that thread post was that specialized dealers like purveyors of rainbow toned and error coins consider their niche their primary market, not a secondary market.&nbsp; I have no idea how you draw the conclusion that rainbow toned coins are common from that statement.&nbsp; Furthermore, if you believe that is what I was saying, why did you feel the need to delete the sentence that included error coin dealers?</p><p><br /></p><p>The fact is that most dealers who specialize in rainbow toned coins have less than 100 coins listed on their website.&nbsp; The only outfit that had a big selection of coins to choose from was Anaconda, and they only had a few hundred coins on their website.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you truly think that rainbow toned coins are common Doug, then please address the math that both Vic and I have presented in this thread.&nbsp; Using E-Bay as an example, we have both shown that the number of rainbow toned coins as a percentage of total is less than 1%.&nbsp; Do you think that 1% is common?&nbsp; If not, please prove to the good members of this forum that the percentage rainbow toned coins is higher than that number.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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