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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 421189, member: 112&quot;]Yes it is difficult, but it is by no means impossible.</p><p><br /></p><p>Given your comment about toning though, consider this, when toning happens to a coin it tends to spread across the coin from one area to the next adjoining area - yes ? Meaning the toning does not jump across an area leaving it untoned and then the next spot toned now does it ? </p><p><br /></p><p>So look at the feathers in the eagle&#039;s neck - how would you explain that as toning where only the high spots are dark ?</p><p><br /></p><p>Now light wear on the other hand does typically affect only the high spots doesn&#039;t it ? Light wear cause the luster on the high spots to be rubbed off the coin so it no longer exist. Toning on the other hand does not remove luster, but allows the luster to shine through from beneath the toning. Just like it does in the fields of this coin. But yet none shines through on the high spots.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then look at the circled area of the beak. Again, toning does not arbitrarily affect just one spot and ignore the surrounding areas - wear does.</p><p><br /></p><p>Given this information, which seems more likely to be the case - wear or toning ?</p><p><br /></p><p>I am not trying to be argumentative, but it seems that common sense should prevail regardless of what the TPG says. </p><p><br /></p><p>It might also be useful to note that PCGS and NGC alone have graded over 50,000 of these coins as AU50 and above. Doesn&#039;t that seem to indicate that perhaps they should adjust their grading standards ?</p><p><br /></p><p>All of these comments are of course solely my opinion, but it seems to be a pretty valid opinion to me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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