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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3005836, member: 112"]There was an even easier way - Ball Jars and or Mason Jars. They were manufactured for home canning purposes and first invented in 1858. As I have said before Jeff, I have never doubted that it was "possible" to protect coins, even long ago. The thing that matters is the probability of that happening. Did it ever happen ? I have no doubt at all that it happened ! I believe it is an absolute certainty that it did happen. But how many people do you think actually did that ? Coin collectors certainly would not have. In the first place they were few and far between. In the second place they didn't store their coins that way. In the 3rd place they never even considered trying to protect them because they never even thought about trying to protect them because they didn't see any reason to do so ! For centuries before that the single most common thing that coin collectors did, for those who didn't like the toning, was every once in a while they would take their coins out and polish them with rags and pieces of cloth. And a few would dip them. And yes the chemicals existed back then. All of this history combined is what makes it so very, very improbable that coins would be stored in canning jars. The one and only thing that existed at the time that would do the job.[/QUOTE]