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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 2104986, member: 15309&quot;]Tom,</p><p><br /></p><p>I have long argued with people that the reason why the toned coin market exploded over the last 15 years is due to two important factors:&nbsp; technological advances in digital photography and the proliferation of said photos via the internet.&nbsp; It is very refreshing to see someone with the same opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Furthermore, for all the people who think that toned coins are a fad, like beanie babies, and will someday carry no premiums to their untoned counterparts, I say this.&nbsp; Neither the internet, nor digital photography is going to disappear.&nbsp; The primary reason why people like rainbow toned coinage is because rainbow toned coins CAN have exceptional eye appeal.&nbsp; I don&#039;t see eye appeal falling out of style anytime soon. </p><p><br /></p><p>In fact, the only threat I see to the rainbow toned coin market, is the widespread advancement of coin doctoring techniques that make distinguishing AT from NT (or QT from MA if you prefer) impossible.&nbsp; While their may be a handful of coin doctors presently who can get their creations past the TPGs, widespread knowledge of those techniques would flood the market with newly toned coins.&nbsp; The effect would be twofold.&nbsp; First, supply would increase causing prices to drop.&nbsp; But the other effect would be the erosion in the confidence of the TPGs to filter out AT coins which would severely affect the market causing a massive drop in prices.&nbsp; That said, the market would probably not collapse completely because collectors would simply seek out coins that had been encapsulated in the past.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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