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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 686185, member: 6370&quot;]You got me there, I have certainly never toned coins and never will, I guess I will leave that to people who do such things...(people like yourself I guess) I wouldn&#039;t waste my time destroying a coin like that. I would rather try to preserve them then to destroy them...better use of ones time IMO. I have, of course, seen several processes that people used to do it....and all came out roughly similar when the same process is used.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I have...on the other hand, watched coins tone over decades of time and have notice...and I said this before...that aside from color patterns, they all have toned rather similarly when placed in similar conditions...going from no tone, to a light haze of tone...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I have NEVER said they will tone to look EXACTLY alike, I am saying the EFFECT will be the same as long as all the variable are similar. Certainly each one will have different patterns, cover in a different way, etc...like a tie dye shirt, none will look EXACTLY the same...just similar if made with a similar process. I have never had a coin tone to rainbow bright candy cane gawd awful ugly like some of the coins here but I can safely assume if given another 60 to 120 years they would eventually start look like that.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>But you do make a good point...<b>&#039;the way a coin reacts to its environment is governed by the laws of chemistry&#039;</b>...and I would say that by knowing these laws and how something reacts to different variables, you can achieve results that will be roughly the same.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>and of course I have said several times, there are other factors that may be at work, but again...if you are aware of those factors, again...the results will be predictable....because as you say, its governed by the laws of chemistry.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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