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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 2670147, member: 112"]What the folks are trying to tell you is that it is completely, 100%, normal for cent coins to look like that. What you are seeing, the colors, is toning - plain and simple. The part that's not plain and simple is that there about a million different things that could cause that toning. And yes, there are about a million different things that could cause the toning. As to why you can see different things, or not see them as the case may be, under different kinds of lighting, is also completely normal. That is the nature of toning. To show you an example of what I am talking about I'm going to show you two different pictures of the same coin. [ATTACH=full]594348[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]594349[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]594350[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]594351[/ATTACH] Now I took both of those sets of pictures about 2 minutes apart, with the same camera, and using the same setting with both. And the only thing I did differently was the change the angle of the lights just a tiny little bit. And yet look at how different that coin looks in those 2 sets of pictures. THAT - is the nature of toning ! And if I changed the lights, say used a different kind of light bulb, the pictures would look different than either of those. That is the nature of light and toning and how they react and change to each other.[/QUOTE]