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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 2742502, member: 15309&quot;]You say that only one kind of person needs to fear your wrath, then you give a person who fits that description a pass because you don&#039;t have the time to be bothered with coins that he offers that might be problem coins.&nbsp; It is a fact that GSC uses photographic post processing to hide flaws in order to make problem coins appear problem free.&nbsp; In my opinion, that meets the definition of ripping people off.&nbsp; He isn&#039;t doing anything illegal, and he has the right to run his business anyway he likes, but I also have the right to warn others of his practices, especially when I think they don&#039;t know better.&nbsp; The one redeeming quality of GSC is that they have a no questions asked return policy if you are unhappy with the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I find it humorous that someone who decided 25 years ago not to be involved with toned coins thinks he knows enough to lecture those who have been immersed in the toned coin market for decades about how it works.&nbsp; You seem to think, like most people who aren&#039;t in the toned coin market, that creating AT coins that can fool the TPGs is an easy feat and that the majority of rainbow toned coins fall into that category.&nbsp; The truth is that it is a very difficult proposition and very few coin doctors possess the ability to fool the TPGs on a consistent basis.</p><p><br /></p><p>Every so often, a guy shows up claiming that it is easy, and then I challenge him to prove his chops.&nbsp; Invariably, they always give me excuses about how they are the good guy and only AT coins for educational purposes and they fold.&nbsp; Kinda like you did when I challenged you to prove your ability to cherrypick GSC&#039;s inventory for financial gain.</p><p><br /></p><p>The truth is that rainbow toned coins existed long before coin doctors attempted to recreate them.&nbsp; It is also true that the large majority of rainbow toned coins in TPG plastic are NT coins.&nbsp; You tell me and my pals in the toner market that we need to be informed yet you sound like a rank amateur when you attempt to discuss toned coins.&nbsp; So Jeff didn&#039;t like my use of type 1 &amp; type 2 AT to separate the neophytes from the experts.&nbsp; Well how about toning progressions, color schemes, elevation chromatics, toning correspondence, and pullaway toning?&nbsp; How about the differences between bag toning, target toning, tab toning, and monochromatic toning?&nbsp; As well as which storage methods cause which pattern and which type of coins are typically found with which pattern?</p><p><br /></p><p>I have news for you, every area of numismatics has its pitfalls and artificial toning is the pitfall for the toned coin market, but that doesn&#039;t mean you throw the baby out with the bath water.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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