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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3001658, member: 112&quot;]Show ya ? Show ya what, pictures ? And if I did what would that prove to you ? I&#039;m betting I could show you a hundred pictures and you still wouldn&#039;t believe it. You&#039;d make all kinds of claims that the coins were stored improperly - or something. That if they had been stored properly it never would have happened.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well ya know what ? You&#039;re right ! It doesn&#039;t happen, not in a lifetime, when coins are stored properly. But there&#039;s one small problem with that. Proper storage methods have only existed, and been practiced, for less than 50 years. And for the first part of that 50 years they were only practiced by a small, very small, minority of the collecting public.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now then, how may Morgans do you know of that are less than 50 years old ? </p><p><br /></p><p>Silly question, stupid question even ? No, but it was asked to make a point. The point being that prior to the late 1960&#039;s NOBODY stored their coins properly ! The single most common storage method was 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 paper coin envelopes. And yes. that paper was absolutely laden with sulfur. The send most common storage method was cardboard coin albums, or cardboard coin folders, also absolutely laden with sulfur. Even the US Mint issued their annual Mint Sets and Proof Sets in sulfur laden cardboard. Other storage methods back then also included sulfur laden cardboard 2x2s, and coin rolls, let&#039;s not forget coin rolls. And oh yeah, they were all, every one of them, laden with sulfur.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now of course today, all of these storage methods still exist and one or the other are used by the majority of coin collectors. Even today ! Very few collectors utilize proper storage methods.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bottom line, almost every older coin there is was at one point in its life, and probably for most of its life, stored in a sulfur laden environment. With absolutely no thought ever even given to controlling temperature or moisture. </p><p><br /></p><p>So these coins that you asked about - &quot;<i>that’s NOT been exposed to adverse conditions.&quot;</i> - there pretty much aren&#039;t any that exist that have not been exposed to adverse conditions. In fact almost all of them spent most of their lives exposed to just about the worst conditions they could possibly be exposed to. And today, the majority of them still are !</p><p><br /></p><p>And again, these are facts, not opinions. And yet you wish to believe what you believe ??????[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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