Why is this happening in an airtite?

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• braddick Posts: 24,865 ✭✭✭✭✭

  June 4, 2021 1:33PM

  Airtite is air tight. I'd think what impurities were already present on the coin allowed over a decade to 'flourish' and oxidize.

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• PerryHall Posts: 46,892 ✭✭✭✭✭

  June 4, 2021 1:35PM

  @braddick said:
  Airtite is air tight. I'd think what impurities were already present on the coin allowed over a decade to 'flourish' and oxidize.

  Agree if you add "not" to your first sentence.

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• Hyperion Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭

  June 4, 2021 1:43PM

  I thought of the existing impurities....but, I figured there's only X amount of impuries which would cause a reaction until it reached .. homeostasis? I mean, at some point the process would arrest? I guess I have no idea what the radio of "impurity" to "extent of damage per unit of impurity is". or how freaking bad the air was when it was encased.
  I mean, I'm not in East-Pollutionville, China where chemicals hang thick in the air...

  ..and why only really this coin? I have literally 60 other air titles and this happened on 2 coins where it went dark.

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• Hyperion Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭

  June 4, 2021 1:46PM

  @PerryHall said:

  @braddick said:
  Airtite is air tight. I'd think what impurities were already present on the coin allowed over a decade to 'flourish' and oxidize.

  Agree if you add "not" to your first sentence.

  if you saw what it took to open that airtite, if this is a factor? it must take a single atom of impure air to cause a square MM of black

  ALTHOUGH, the airtitle did have that black "inert" material that comes with the airtite.. possible that was defective chemically? guess what I'm throwing out right now ...... I'm betting that's the culprit if there is one.

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• PerryHall Posts: 46,892 ✭✭✭✭✭

  June 4, 2021 2:17PM

  @Hyperion said:

  @PerryHall said:

  @braddick said:
  Airtite is air tight. I'd think what impurities were already present on the coin allowed over a decade to 'flourish' and oxidize.

  Agree if you add "not" to your first sentence.

  if you saw what it took to open that airtite, if this is a factor? it must take a single atom of impure air to cause a square MM of black

  ALTHOUGH, the airtitle did have that black "inert" material that comes with the airtite.. possible that was defective chemically? guess what I'm throwing out right now ...... I'm betting that's the culprit if there is one.

  @Hyperion said:

  @PerryHall said:

  @braddick said:
  Airtite is air tight. I'd think what impurities were already present on the coin allowed over a decade to 'flourish' and oxidize.

  Agree if you add "not" to your first sentence.

  if you saw what it took to open that airtite, if this is a factor? it must take a single atom of impure air to cause a square MM of black

  ALTHOUGH, the airtitle did have that black "inert" material that comes with the airtite.. possible that was defective chemically? guess what I'm throwing out right now ...... I'm betting that's the culprit if there is one.

  Did you smell that black foam rubber ring? If you can smell it, it's probably out-gassing some chemical that may be a major cause of your coin turning in the capsule.

  Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
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• jmlanzaf Posts: 36,882 ✭✭✭✭✭

  June 4, 2021 2:41PM

  @PerryHall said:

  @Hyperion said:

  @PerryHall said:

  @braddick said:
  Airtite is air tight. I'd think what impurities were already present on the coin allowed over a decade to 'flourish' and oxidize.

  Agree if you add "not" to your first sentence.

  if you saw what it took to open that airtite, if this is a factor? it must take a single atom of impure air to cause a square MM of black

  ALTHOUGH, the airtitle did have that black "inert" material that comes with the airtite.. possible that was defective chemically? guess what I'm throwing out right now ...... I'm betting that's the culprit if there is one.

  @Hyperion said:

  @PerryHall said:

  @braddick said:
  Airtite is air tight. I'd think what impurities were already present on the coin allowed over a decade to 'flourish' and oxidize.

  Agree if you add "not" to your first sentence.

  if you saw what it took to open that airtite, if this is a factor? it must take a single atom of impure air to cause a square MM of black

  ALTHOUGH, the airtitle did have that black "inert" material that comes with the airtite.. possible that was defective chemically? guess what I'm throwing out right now ...... I'm betting that's the culprit if there is one.

  Did you smell that black foam rubber ring? If you can smell it, it's probably out-gassing some chemical that may be a major cause of your coin turning in the capsule.

  If you're talking about this foam inserts, I would be highly suspicious of it.

  And "air tites" are not at all air tight. They will slow down air flow but they don't stop it. But if the foam is at all unstable, that is bad not good.

  All comments reflect the opinion of the author, evn when irrefutably accurate.

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• astrorat Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭✭✭

  June 4, 2021 2:45PM

  As soon as a coin is struck, it is in contact with atmospheric contaminants, no matter how minute. It may take millennia, but silver will tarnish ... much to the dismay of @ricko

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• sellitstore Posts: 3,053 ✭✭✭✭✭

  June 4, 2021 3:19PM

  Who knows what was on the surface of the coin before it was put in the holder?

  That's likely the problem if your other coins didn't tone.

  Collector and dealer in obsolete currency. Always buying all obsolete bank notes and scrip.

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• Catbert Posts: 7,648 ✭✭✭✭✭

  June 4, 2021 3:41PM

  @sellitstore said:
  Who knows what was on the surface of the coin before it was put in the holder?

  That's likely the problem if your other coins didn't tone.

  This.

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• derryb Posts: 37,700 ✭✭✭✭✭

  June 4, 2021 4:54PM

  air tite is not vacuum sealed.

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• WAYNEAS Posts: 7,012 ✭✭✭✭✭

  June 4, 2021 5:20PM

  Cleaning of blanks prior to minting is the usual issue.
  Wayne

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• ColonelJessup Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭✭✭

  June 4, 2021 7:08PM edited June 4, 2021 7:17PM

  False advertising

  From your hazy picture, it looks like there's good frost and the toning that so disturbs you will come right off with diluted Jewel-Luster. The question, of course, is what's under the darkness on the cheek, but that's very likely NOT thumbing.
  Then, mayhap, a flashy MS63 or 64.

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• Barberian Posts: 4,132 ✭✭✭✭✭

  June 5, 2021 1:07PM

  @derryb said:
  air tite is not vacuum sealed.

  Are NGC and PCGS slabs vacuum sealed? I don't believe so.

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• derryb Posts: 37,700 ✭✭✭✭✭

  June 5, 2021 2:16PM

  that is why coins change in capsules and in slabs.

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• GRANDAM Posts: 8,771 ✭✭✭✭✭

  June 5, 2021 3:51PM

  Dip it,,,,, it will be fine.

  GrandAm

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