Does looking at your coins slow down or prevent toning?
LanLord
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Okay, this question isn't as wacky as it sounds.
By constantly looking at your coins (in albums) you would be constantly disturbing the air around the coins.
Will this prevent an environment from developing around your coins where toing would take place?
The reason I ask is that in 1999 I bought several proof sets. I gave one to each of my children and placed the rest in my collection.
I regularly look at coins in my collection and therefore they get moved around at least once a month, if not more often. My kids just tossed theirs aside and forgot about them.
I was helping my son organize some of his coins last week and noticed his 1999 proof set had the coolest toning going on around every one of the coins in it.
Mine are still pretty much the same color they were when they were new from the mint.
His look so cool, I thought about ways to talk him out of them (but I didn't - I'm not that much of a fiend)
It just made me wonder what were the differences.
The only think I can think of is that his just sat, untouched, unmoved for a couple years and mine didn't.
By constantly looking at your coins (in albums) you would be constantly disturbing the air around the coins.
Will this prevent an environment from developing around your coins where toing would take place?
The reason I ask is that in 1999 I bought several proof sets. I gave one to each of my children and placed the rest in my collection.
I regularly look at coins in my collection and therefore they get moved around at least once a month, if not more often. My kids just tossed theirs aside and forgot about them.
I was helping my son organize some of his coins last week and noticed his 1999 proof set had the coolest toning going on around every one of the coins in it.
Mine are still pretty much the same color they were when they were new from the mint.
His look so cool, I thought about ways to talk him out of them (but I didn't - I'm not that much of a fiend)
It just made me wonder what were the differences.
The only think I can think of is that his just sat, untouched, unmoved for a couple years and mine didn't.
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