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Message:: [QUOTE="eddiespin, post: 427544, member: 4920"]The pendulum swings both ways, Lehigh. It could also be these toned Morgans haven't yet reached their saturation point. Not saying they're bell bottom jeans and platform shoes, but that we don't know that, yet. Give it time. Five years or so ago I saw the ugliest toned Franklin half on Heritage NGC-graded upper gem (67/68, I don't remember exactly), FBL. You couldn't even see any of the details in any of the critical areas for the "toning" (...or, if you could, it was very difficult). Today that negative toning would subtract from the technical grade; but, just five years ago, it was considered irrelevant to the grade, a wash. Today, toning is in more solid with these TPGs as a grading checkpoint, and hardly just icing on the cake, anymore. Again, just saying we don't know. Your position is supportable. The opposing position is just as supportable. All anybody can definitively say is we'll get closer to the answer as time goes along. Just my buck three-eighty...don't get all worked up and in attack mode. I love your collection. I told you it wasn't my taste, but I think it's a very enviable, if not...given the market conditions, today...valuable one. But this market on these "toners" is too young to forecast, as yet; and that's my position, here, in a nutshell.[/QUOTE]