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Message:: [QUOTE="ToughCOINS, post: 3060339, member: 20480"]Careful there Folks . . . The phrase "Improper storage" used in this thread likely discriminates against coins that have not spent the majority of their lives stored in rolls.  It is in rolls that they are best "preserved", simply because it is in that mode of storage that there is the highest ratio of surface area to available oxygen. To broadly characterize either toned coins or untoned coins as necessarily being the best is an unqualified statement on its face. I rarely buy bright white, roll-stored coins because they are common enough to have  survived in roll quantities for a long time.  That's my only misgiving with extremely lustrous white coins . . . If there's something else about them that makes them particularly scarce,then I'll chase them, even when bright white. Same with toned coins.  For scarce and rare coins, I expect them to be toned, as it is unlikely that they spent years in rolls, and almost certainly toned over time.  When they are bright white, however, that gives me pause, as it should.  If they remain intensely lustrous, I'll still consider them, but cautiously, as stripped ugly toning can, and often does return.[/QUOTE]