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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 7873161, member: 15309&quot;]Those aren&#039;t registry sets, they are showcases for a one time promotion that PCGS may or may not make an annual event.&nbsp; The people who showcased their coins in those sets were already buying rainbow toned coins long before the PCGS promotion.</p><p><br /></p><p>The incentive to artificially tone coins will not increase drastically because PCGS offers a cash award once per year.&nbsp; The coin doctors won&#039;t see one penny of that award money, and the people who won the awards are very experienced collectors who are just as good, if not better at weeding out AT coins from their collections.</p><p><br /></p><p>Furthermore, the TPGs are never incentivized to grade AT coins.&nbsp; If the collector base ever lost faith in the ability of the TPGs to weed out the vast majority of AT coins, the entire toned coin market would collapse overnight.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do have a question for you though.&nbsp; How can you criticize the coins as AT when you haven&#039;t even bothered to look at them?&nbsp; And honestly, you need to prove to me (and the other members of this forum) that you can tell the difference between an AT and NT coin, because quite frankly, I don&#039;t think you have any idea what you are talking about.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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