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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;eddiespin, post: 25227314, member: 4920&quot;]I wouldn&#039;t lose any sleep over that. The TPGs don&#039;t know what they&#039;re doing with these things. I&#039;d just focus on the technical aspects and value the toning however you will. No coin should be kept off the market for some bozo who can&#039;t even define the arbitrary term calling the toning &quot;artificial.&quot; But the TPGs get away with that game all the time because they know we love to believe they&#039;re holier than thou. Buy what appeals to you on the theory others will see it and find it appealing, too, and forget their game, it&#039;s just that, a game. You don&#039;t believe it, ask one of them to define it, see what you get. And they tried like heck back when PCGS was going head over heels after the so-called &quot;coin doctors.&quot; Their complaint sat in federal court for six months through a continuance before it was dismissed out because it was never served on any of the named defendants. Their Collector&#039;s Universe coin board was so indoctrinated by that time they speculated the named defendants in the class action suit, again, who were never served a complaint, somehow settled out of court. And hysteria over coin doctoring ensued. Don&#039;t fall for it. Don&#039;t take them seriously, there&#039;s your bottom line. Buy what you like, and to hell with their take on toning. If you need to get slabbed, look at what they&#039;re calling &quot;market acceptable,&quot; that&#039;s how you do that. Blast-white dipped coins grade all the time. Toned coins don&#039;t always grade because the TPGs believe they&#039;re so exceptional they can sit in judgement of something they can&#039;t even so much as define half-way intelligibly, and that&#039;s a big crock. And I&#039;m just getting warmed up, but that&#039;s a piece of it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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