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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2805180, member: 112&quot;]All coins begin toning the moment after they are struck. Toning is a matter of degree, but it is always there. A lot of folks don&#039;t seem to realize that.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, the degree of toning could have an effect on whether or not acetone reacts with the copper. But then so could all of the other possible variables. Ya see that&#039;s kinda the thing - variables. People seem to think that everything is the same all the time, there&#039;s just a copper coin and acetone involved, But that isn&#039;t the case, there can literally be a thousand other variables involved to explain why some copper coins turn weird colors when rinsed in acetone and others don&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>And to understand that, to realize it, all you have to do is think for a minute. Everybody here is a coin collector and each and every one of you has seen the exact same kind of thing happen with all your coins. You guys who use albums, do all the coins in your albums tone just the same ? No they don&#039;t - not ever ! Well why not ? You can take 20 or 30 coins, all brand new coins fresh from the mint, and put them into an album and what happens ? Some tone to beautiful colors and others - they just don&#039;t. But yet nobody thinks there&#039;s anything unusual about that. Same thing happens with silver coins, clad coins, even gold coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>Or, it might be that you put coins into albums and nothing happens, but your friends, your neighbors, their coins turn beautiful colors. Why ?</p><p><br /></p><p>The answer is always the same, it&#039;s because of the all the variables involved. Each person, each house, each town, each state, even each country - they are all different, then throw in all the different storage methods - and you can have literally a thousand or more variables. </p><p><br /></p><p>Nobody ever questions any of that. But say that acetone can sometimes cause copper to turn weird colors and it&#039;s oh no that can&#039;t ever happen because I&#039;ve never had it happen to me. Well none of that other stuff happened to you either - but you can&#039;t deny that it did happen to others.</p><p><br /></p><p>Different things happen because of all the variables involved, and there are always, always, always, variables involved.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most people also don&#039;t think that copper can be successfully dipped either - because they can&#039;t do it. Or they&#039;ve read that it can&#039;t be done. Well guess what ? Not only can it be done - it is done. And the proof of it in front of everybody&#039;s faces - but somehow they can&#039;t manage to see it. Why not ? Because they don&#039;t think.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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