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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tom B, post: 2104969, member: 11854&quot;]<i>&quot;Did you actually find big demand for toned coins back then ? I thought that was a recent phenomena.&nbsp; </i></p><p><i>Tom, what do you mean with the reference to &#039;problem coin&#039; and getting tough on certain problems in the last 15 years ? Can you elaborate ?&quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p>To answer your questions; yes, there was a very large demand for toned coins at that time.&nbsp; Toning is not a recent phenomena and the desirability of toned coinage is not new, either.&nbsp; What is new, however, is the internet and its ability to share images of wonderfully toned coins as well as its ability to drive the prices even higher for these coins since they have a much larger audience who know about it when special pieces are sold.&nbsp; Just two decades ago coin photography was not nearly as refined or universal as it is today and the ability to buy great toned coins was much more often linked to being lucky and seeing one on the bourse floor or having contacts who would save such coins for their clients.&nbsp; The internet has changed all that and now these toned coins are chased by a much larger audience that drive the prices higher (classic supply and demand scenario).</p><p><br /></p><p>PCGS is better today at identifying various types of AT and surface manipulation than they were two decades ago.&nbsp; Consequently, coins that likely would have received a straight grade in the 1990s now will get placed into a genuine holder.&nbsp; As an extension of that, some coins that currently reside in OGHs, and that benefit from the OGH mystique or cache, would get bagged today.&nbsp; Ironic, isn&#039;t it?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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