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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 689122, member: 112&quot;]Dru, pretty much the only time we can base our opinions on personal experience is when our personal experience proves to be the exception to the rule, rather than the rule itself. Especially with something like toning. That&#039;s because with toning, there are so very, very many variables involved.</p><p><br /></p><p>As I have said before, each and every coin is 100% unique. Collectors should always remember that coins are like fingerprints - no 2 of them are alike even if from the same date and mint. They are only similar. And how each of those coins reacts to environmental conditions is going to be just as unique as the coins are.</p><p><br /></p><p>Good examples of this are, as I have mentioned, original Mint Sets from the &#039;40s &amp; &#039;50s. Each of those sets would 2 of each coin from the same date and mint, stored in exactly the same holder and stored under exactly the same conditions, for the same amount of time. But each and every one of the coins would tone differently - completely differently. One might turn out to be extremly colorful while the other right beside it turned gun metal grey. </p><p><br /></p><p>Then throw in all the possible variables you cna have for environmental conditions, even in the same town at the same time, and you have a nearly infinite number of possible outcomes. And don&#039;t forget, it&#039;s not just the stuff like the prevailing wind, the air content in one area of town vs another, or the variations in temperature from one area to another - although all of these things play a very important part in the outcome. It&#039;s also the type of heat and cooling system you have in your home, or don&#039;t have. It&#039;s also the type of cook stove, the insulation in the home, the type of carpet or lack thereof, tile or linoleum floors, hardwood floors, whether you smoke or not, do you have a fireplace and is it gas or wood burning. The types of food you cook and how often.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then you have the variables for storage and coin holders. That alone provides a great many variables.</p><p><br /></p><p>All of these things combined determine how a coin will turn out when it tones. So what we ourselves do doesn&#039;t really determine anything, prove or disprove anything, about how the majority of coins in the rest of the world tone. It only proves how <u>our</u> coins toned. And that is a very poor baseline to judge things against.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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