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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RedTiger, post: 640377, member: 19098&quot;]There are very few confessions from those doing toning for profit. It would be bad for business. Mostly, there are stories, or stories about stories heard, or a sharp eye that picks out a coin from auction images that used to be slabbed mostly white and now has wild toning and is in another slab.</p><p><br /></p><p>I tend to avoid these AT/NT threads. I am relatively new on this forum. Let me say that the AT/NT debate is not very interesting to me. What I am more interested in, is how old is the toning the coin. Was it likely that the coin toned 70 years ago, while sitting in a bag with other coins? Or was it likely toned five years ago in a lab by an expert churning out pretty toners by the dozens? For some toning patterns, the results are near identical, the chemistry near identical, the coins near impossible to pick apart.</p><p><br /></p><p>Toning goes in and out of fashion. Ebay and online imaging were a catalyst in creating a huge market for toners. The scenario that some believe is that lab guys filled the demand and ran to the bank, then as more and more toners get made, and slabbed, demand got satiated, and the cycle ebbed.</p><p><br /></p><p>I always tell folks to &quot;collect what you like.&quot; If a person likes toners, by all means buy them. What that person pays is their business. I&#039;ll never argue with a collector about what they like or what they are willing to pay. That is all personal decision making.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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