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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 1090549, member: 15309&quot;]FWIW, you don&#039;t see the logic because you don&#039;t want to.&nbsp; Your anti toning stance is well documented on this forum.&nbsp; And you are welcome to form any opinion that you want, but to allude that 50% of all slabbed toned coins are AT simply because nobody can prove they are NT is tantamount to propaganda IMO.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have made the claim that the number of coin doctors who can consistently fool the TPG&#039;s with their work is a very small and elite club.&nbsp; I have asked the members of this forum to speak out if they know a coin doctor who claims to have this skill level.&nbsp; Only Leadfoot responded.&nbsp; So you have seen tons of &quot;good&quot; toning from bags or albums but have also seen quite a bit from &quot;other sources.&quot;&nbsp; What is that supposed to mean?&nbsp; What are &quot;other sources&quot;?&nbsp; Please don&#039;t speak in tongues!</p><p><br /></p><p>The fact is that the large majority of AT coins in the world are easily identifiable as such.&nbsp; Only an elite few are able to replicate what is considered natural toning.&nbsp; The remainder of the AT creations will fall somewhere on the toning scale.</p><p><br /></p><p>Think of toning as a scale with AT at one end and NT at the other.&nbsp; In between, you will find various degrees of toning progressing from questionable to widely acceptable toning.&nbsp; The better the quality of the AT, the further to the right of the scale the coin will land.&nbsp; However, I firmly believe that the further right you go, the number of AT coins extant gets progressively smaller.&nbsp; To demonstrate my point I have created a scale using photos of album toned Jefferson Nickels from my collection.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o59/ACPitBoss/Jefferson%20Nickels%20Raw/ToningScale.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o59/ACPitBoss/Jefferson%20Nickels%20Raw/ToningScaleFirst.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o59/ACPitBoss/Jefferson%20Nickels%20Raw/ToningScaleLast.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The problem is that in the middle of the scale, both NT and AT coins will show the exact same toning patterns and color schemes.&nbsp; Based on recent reports, both TPG&#039;s have already become more conservative in their evaluation of toning.&nbsp; The coin I have shown as borderline QT/MA would probably fall into the questionably toned category if cracked out and re-submitted.</p><p><br /></p><p>Instead of explaining the subtle differences in the examples I have shown, I think it would be more educational if the readers of this thread engage and discuss the differences as they see them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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