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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;treylxapi47, post: 2129450, member: 41863&quot;]You&#039;ve proven my point even further. There were still enough &#039;rainbow&#039; toned coins even at the lower spectrum for you to be a dealer in them. </p><p><br /></p><p>Toning is easy. As long as the coin as a relatively original surface, albums, tissue, envelopes, even the atmosphere all produce toning. Toning is easy, it&#039;s available, and it&#039;s not some rare phenomenon.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ok. You say 1-2% surviving and Lehigh said 1-2% out of all slabbed coins. It can&#039;t be both. </p><p><br /></p><p>If it&#039;s the survivors then you have to factor how large the AU/MS pool is, and even further how many have original surfaces. Of those with original surfaces a large percent will exhibit attractive toning of some sort. Iridescent, rainbow, straight blue or purple, etc. </p><p><br /></p><p>If it&#039;s 1-2% out of ALL slabbed coins, then the number should be shrinking as moderns are currently outpacing any other submittal category. So the pool overall of graded coins is widening and yet 1-2% is the constant? Maybe there are tone doctors? </p><p><br /></p><p>Like I said. You aren&#039;t going to find a monster rainbow toned buffalo in the dateless buffalo bucket. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m just here to show that even before the Internet that there were whole auction and auction catalogs with the majority being pleasing toned specimens. </p><p><br /></p><p>It was said to produce those documents. Doug produced teletrade and I produced 90s-2000s auction catalogs. </p><p><br /></p><p>Face it. Toned coins aren&#039;t so scarce that they can&#039;t be obtained fairly easily. And further maybe there is a possibility that there are Drs out there with the skill to fool all of us.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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