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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 541060, member: 15309&quot;]The answer to your question is no.&nbsp; If another person besides myself both ignored the AT label, I would still pay what I was willing to pay when the coin had the NT label.&nbsp; The reason for this is simple.&nbsp; If I had that coin, I would never sell it.&nbsp; In essence, I would probably be the only person in the world who wants that coin to be called AT, it would make the coin available for sale at a ridiculously low price.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding the coin doctor thing, I can make the same &quot;no basis&quot; statement about you and others.&nbsp; What basis does everyone have to say the there are an army of coin doctors out there that are getting AT coins past the graders at NGC and PCGS.&nbsp; I have seen AT coins encapsulated, but they are few and far between in my search for toned coins.&nbsp; If there were that many successful coin doctors getting coins past the graders, slabbed AT coins would be very, very common.&nbsp; My basis for making my statement is simple.&nbsp; I search for (and sometimes purchase) graded rainbow toned coins every day.&nbsp; I have done this for years.&nbsp; As a percentage of total coins that I view, the number of graded toned coins that I believe are AT is extremely small.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will go even further and state that the majority of the AT coins I have seen in holders are ones that were once considered &quot;market acceptable&quot; and are no longer viewed that way.&nbsp; Examples are Peacock IKE&#039;s, blue Indians, and of course, Appalachian Jefferson Nickels.&nbsp; If you would like to prove me wrong, go ahead an post some links to as many slabbed AT coins currently in auction as you can.&nbsp; If you find more than 10, I will be impressed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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