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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3402718, member: 19463"]Natural toning for a 1900 year old piece of silver would be dark gray to black. Almost all ancients have been cleaned but some may have been cleaned before the first US coin was made. Many of us have coins that we know have been in a collection for over a hundred years. The standards for terms like 'natural' have to be applied differently for ancient coins than for recently made things like silver dollars. You coin looks fine to me. Whether it got that way from storage in 'bad' paper, oak cabinets, big city pollution or dirty fingers of collectors not afraid to touch their coins makes little difference.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3402718, member: 19463"]Natural toning for a 1900 year old piece of silver would be dark gray to black. Almost all ancients have been cleaned but some may have been cleaned before the first US coin was made. Many of us have coins that we know have been in a collection for over a hundred years. The standards for terms like 'natural' have to be applied differently for ancient coins than for recently made things like silver dollars. You coin looks fine to me. Whether it got that way from storage in 'bad' paper, oak cabinets, big city pollution or dirty fingers of collectors not afraid to touch their coins makes little difference.[/QUOTE]
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