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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2020003, member: 19463&quot;]I am in the process of changing the way my collection is stored so I am handling every coin as I write up the new ticket.&nbsp; Most of my coins have been photographed in the last ten years and I have changed the way I did it several times so it is always hard to say exactly how a photo compared to the &#039;in hand&#039; look of the coin on that day.&nbsp; Some still look like my photos even if it has been quite a while.&nbsp; Others seem to be toning more.&nbsp; Some coins were old collection items when I got them.&nbsp; Some were new hoard coins and had probably been recently cleaned.&nbsp; In most cases, I do not know details but coins that have rested side by side for a decade are not all toning to the same degree.&nbsp; Some are getting darker gray.&nbsp; A few are deepening colors as I remember them.&nbsp; This sample is the same color are a pre digital print photo I took in 1997 but the colors are deepening.&nbsp; I suspect in a century the coin will be dark gray but it is now only on the journey.&nbsp; The golden parts are where there is thin silvering.&nbsp; Less silver protected areas are not the same color.&nbsp; I have no idea how much of this is from air and how much from residual chemicals from cleaning or impurities in the various storage methods used by me and the coin&#039;s previous owners.&nbsp; I also have no idea how rapidly the coin will continue to tone.&nbsp;&nbsp; You will hear claims of about ways of protecting coins from time but I believe time will have its way with us all.&nbsp; In another decade will this coin be prettier?&nbsp; Will I?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]365437[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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