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Message:: [QUOTE="Leadfoot, post: 1062024, member: 2972"]I suspect it's more than most people think. I look at it like this... There are no-brainer NT coins -- coins like Marauder's or Shane's bag-toned Morgans, or even 1956 mint set toners -- coins that are in all likelihood NT and fairly easy to identify by their very distinctive look. There are no-brainer AT coins -- coins that never make it into holders.  Think cheesy AT moderns placed in an oven and toned blue, or blue-toned AT proof copper like that posted above. There there's everything else -- so called Market Acceptable (or Questionably Toned) coins.  Coins like the Seated Dollar posted above (before it was proven to be AT) -- or even Marauder's bust half or my avatar to the left -- but also virtually any envelope or album toned coin.  This makes up the majority of toned coins, and it is in this population of toned coins where the the doctors operate, and none of us know for sure just how many are natural and how many are artificially toned. But my feeling is the problem is larger than most of us want to realize.  Perhaps that's cynicism talking, but the more I learn about the coin game, the more I think the likelihood that a great many of us toning enthusiasts are being fooled. But that's just me, and I certainly don't know it all or speak for anyone but myself.[/QUOTE]