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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 606067, member: 15309&quot;]I don&#039;t dispute that trying to deceive others in an attempt to make money is wrong.&nbsp; My point is that it is the Numismatic community&#039;s vilification of artificial toning that makes it deceptive in the first place. With acceptance, the price of the AT coin would then be decided by the market.&nbsp; A beautiful coin with what we now call &quot;market acceptable&quot; toning would drive a large premium and the AT crap produced by novices will still be crap, and the terrible toning would still negatively affect the value of the coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>I say grade every one, slap QT (questionable toning) on the slab, and let the market decide how much each coin is worth.&nbsp; How many NT coins have been relegated to worthless items by the TPG&#039;s unrelenting pursuit to avoid slabbing an AT coin?&nbsp; How many AT coins have made it into TPG slabs due to the TPG&#039;s stubborn refusal to admit that sometimes, they just don&#039;t know?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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