Get 'em while there hot boys and girls. The next big thing............textile toned ASE's!
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Knew it would happen eventually. I guess we are going to straight grade everything.
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I think you can get a " make your own ASE toner kit" maybe on ebay.
This is part of the reason that confidence in certified coins is dropping and the market is going to hell.
Dip them and they will be OK
Ridiculous!
And what is the "Dont tread on me" flag on the label for?
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Don't know why but it reminds me of a pizza.
Note to self - lay off the blue cheese topping.
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I prefer PCGS in most scenarios, but I cannot tolerate how they are holdering thousands of blatantly artificially toned ASE's just because they're popular. I see these types of coins go for insane rates on eBay and Instagram, and coin doctors are unethically making huge profits off of it.
Probably easy to make. Just sit a ASE on a towel on a window sill for 6 months.
ugh
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Probably easy to make. Just sit a ASE on a towel on a window sill for 6 months.
yes, exactly, I only wish I had a dollar for every time one of our esteemed members crowed about doing that, using the water heater or any number of other tricks to tone/retone a coin. members brag about doing it and then become indignant when someone else does it.
ridiculous.
The methods by which these coins are produced are no secret; their sellers extol them. Which makes me baffled as to how they can bring money like this and have such a consistent following.
I find it incredible that once hated, blatantly AT coins are now becoming mainstream acceptable. There have always been AT coins... and really good one's understandably passed the experts - done right, it is no different than NT (in fact, the only real difference is the speed of tarnish and, in some cases, the radical colors). The other surprising issue is the prices being realized - and that is the main factor for the burgeoning prevalence of this 'coin art'....and now, the acceptance by TPG's lends the final credentials necessary to eliminate the terms AT/NT... since it makes no difference anymore. Cheers, RickO
ugh
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It might be time to short Taco Bell stock , looks like the napkins are getting much coarser . Must be trying to save money.
Maybe they also have 2017 ase in this condition? Maybe the mint should sell it this way. Current year toned ase.
Say it after me: " its natural toning"
And what diagnostics are you challenging PCGS's opinion on exactly? Please educate me.
Simple question, Do ASE's come in Mint canvas bags?
I'm holding out for the textile-waffle toned combo.
Didn't go looking, but it might already exist.
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I have an ASE that's been in a 7070 Dansco album for 15 years(?) It's still white. Maybe a touch of haze last time I looked.
You can tell me that the high silver content makes ASE's prone to toning all you want....I'm still suspicious of all of them.
I've got one similarly stored that is wildly toned . Oh wait yours was in in album? Mine was stored in a bag of french fries . Everything else was exactly the same though
Damn my choice of orthodox storage!!!
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Ummmm...no
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To get the textile look you probably want to go with Ore Ida brand crinkle cut.
@Keets, I don't collect or attempt to tone ASE this way. Please don't imply that I'm in on this in any way. I have seen many ASE toned this way from others that have done it, and admitted it.
just makes the old type slabbed toned coins more desirable to me...feels like more likely accidental toning before the craze began and the doctors became active
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Am I the only one who believes that these coins lay in canvas sacks for years on the floor of humid bank vaults?
** Please don't imply that I'm in on this in any way.**
I don't believe I did that, but let me check........................nope, never did, but since you infer that I did it must be a guilty conscience or something.
carry on.
I have purchased ASE's from the beginning (up until they skipped a year).... They are still clear and pristine with no tarnish or milk spots.... I have stored them in two places... my gun safe initially, and for the last few years, in a cardboard box in the cellar....true, it is a finished cellar, livable...my man cave
. I took them out of the gun safe since I needed more room for guns... 
The coins were with me in Florida (the first few) and in WA state... and now here. My safes are very secure, but not airtight. Most, if not all, the ASE's we see tarnished, fit the formula of artificial... i.e. intent and accelerated. I do not care how people spend their money. I just do not like the lies that accompany these products. For all intents and purposes, the label 'Questionable color' may as well be eliminated now that so many AT coins are being slabbed.
Cheers, RickO
Well they are very hard to find but I like them, this one had became loose in an album and the texture from the album page made it look like textile.
Did pcgs straight grade this coin?
Yes 67