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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Volodya, post: 2653895, member: 19615&quot;]&quot;Cabinet toning,&quot; used correctly, is the grey or brown color that a bright coin slowly achieves after residing for many decades (or hundreds of years!)<b> in a cabinet</b>. &quot;Cabinet friction,&quot; used correctly, is post-circulation wear to the high points of a coin after many decades (or hundreds of years!) of very gradual rubbing against the soft-lined surfaces <b>of a cabinet</b>. The Abafil trays that some of us use to house our coins certainly qualify as cabinets in this sense, although the rubbing is fortunately minimized by the fact that the trays stack and are lifted out, rather than being sliding drawers as was once the case.</p><p><br /></p><p>At any rate, even if there were no modern cases approximating the cabinets of the past, &quot;cabinet toning&quot; and &quot;cabinet wear&quot; would still be meaningful and useful terms. Fun fact: save the fortunately very infrequent modern loss to fire or other calamities, the cabinet-housed coins of past collections are still around in today&#039;s collections. They don&#039;t expire and go poof after their warranty runs out.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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