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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 2129451, member: 15309&quot;]So you think that I don&#039;t understand toned coins because I haven&#039;t seen enough auction catalogs?</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o59/ACPitBoss/Auction%20Catalogs/IMG_1230_zpsm2gqnxv9.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And I know that those coins are part of the certified population.&nbsp; But very few of them are rainbow toned.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Fine, we will look at the numbers for the series that is most common with rainbow toning, Morgan Dollars.&nbsp; The total certified E-Bay population of Morgan Dollar is 13,651 and the total number listed as rainbow toned is 664.&nbsp; After looking at the first 50, only about half actually qualify as rainbow toned or certified.&nbsp; So the math is (664/13651)/2 = 2.4%.&nbsp; Guess what, it still looks small.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Again, we are not talking about the same coins.&nbsp; You are talking about ultra rarities that have mostly 4, 5, or 6 digit price tags.&nbsp; I have only ever owned two coins that cost more than $5K.&nbsp; The people who buy the coins you are showing are not people in my league, they are rich people.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I never said I didn&#039;t see any.&nbsp; I said &quot;barely any,&quot; &quot;handful,&quot; and &quot;very few.&quot;&nbsp; And the ones I did see barely qualify as rainbow toned.&nbsp; And yes, I&#039;m looking at the coins you posted.&nbsp; What is clear is that you think that any hint of color qualifies a coin as &quot;rainbow toned.&quot;&nbsp; The coins you posted are toned, not rainbow toned.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>OK, I will give my categorization of each coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>214 5c:&nbsp; NO (Light peripheral toning)</p><p>232 5c:&nbsp; NO (Light pastel toning)</p><p>332 30c:&nbsp; NO (Monochromatic toning)</p><p>342 25c:&nbsp; NO (Your wasting my time with coins like this)</p><p>271 10c:&nbsp; NO (Monochromatic toning)</p><p>337 25c:&nbsp; YES (Barely-looks like a progression of 3 colors on obverse)</p><p>344 25c:&nbsp; NO (Monochromatic toning)</p><p><br /></p><p>347 25c:&nbsp; NO (Brown and blue is not rainbow)</p><p>352 25c:&nbsp; NO (Mottled blue and violet is not rainbow)</p><p>359 25c:&nbsp; NO (Brown and blue is not rainbow)</p><p>361 25c:&nbsp; NO (Blue and violet is not rainbow)</p><p>363 25c:&nbsp; NO (Blue and violet is not rainbow)</p><p>355 25c:&nbsp; NO (Peach and lavender is not rainbow)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The plate coins will always contain the rarest and most eye appealing examples.&nbsp; But what you showed were a whole bunch of rare coins with some toning.&nbsp; If the toning patterns that were on any of the coins you posted were on a Morgan Dollar, the associated toning premium would be very small if any premium at all.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No, I want you to stop wasting my time with this nonsense.&nbsp; First, the coins you are posting are not rainbow toned despite your desire to call them so.&nbsp; Second, you are posting rare expensive coins that have no chance of ever being artificially toned and have no bearing on the bigger topic of this thread.&nbsp; Third, you are posting a ton of proof coins which don&#039;t tone with the same patterns as mint state coins and were stored much differently. </p><p><br /></p><p>We are talking about this:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o59/ACPitBoss/Picture050.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>A rainbow toned coin is a coin showing vibrant colors that progress from yellow to magenta to cyan.&nbsp; Obviously, this coin represents the pinnacle of rainbow toned coins.&nbsp; If you need a better idea of what we are talking about, please read this thread:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/rainbow-tonings-effect-on-price.39837/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/rainbow-tonings-effect-on-price.39837/">Rainbow Toning&#039;s effect on price</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Specifically, post number 13.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>All of those coins that have those descriptions are expensive old toned proofs.&nbsp; Again, they are not the coins we are talking about.&nbsp; And iridescent doesn&#039;t mean rainbow, it usually means that the toning will change appearance when rotated in the light.&nbsp; Sometimes that change means it basically disappears.&nbsp; Blue-green is just that, not rainbow.&nbsp; And if you don&#039;t think people use descriptive words on E-Bay then you have not looked at my coins.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You are right, toned coins are easy to find, rainbow toned coins are hard to find.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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