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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Howard Black, post: 3559046, member: 97119&quot;]Again, the sparklies are NOT &quot;toning&quot;! I have countless coins with toning -- bronze, copper, cupronickel, silver -- even a stinking huge number of &quot;junk&quot; silver, much of which was in BU condition when purchased two decades ago, and at that point was rough-sorted (mainly by type), and stored in a bunch of then-new &quot;brown paper bags&quot; -- and when I found numismatics interesting (the silver acquired at the time as a store of (ahem) &quot;wealth&quot;), I remembered that we had those coins, so I decided to find them and see if there were any of numismatic merit.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first thing I noticed was that <i>many</i> of them had taken on beautiful rainbow toning.</p><p><br /></p><p>But none of them started sprouting tiny little red and green reflective discs!</p><p><br /></p><p>So I&#039;m fairly confident we can dismiss the sparklies being an artifact of the toning process, and since you seem to acknowledge that yourself (your argument stream having forked into a lecture on copper oxidation byproducts and the other fork being a somewhat condescending tutorial on gunk getting on coins), I have to scratch my head wondering why toning has even entered the discussion. It has no bearing on the question, and only serves to muddy the waters.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, for the last time, does <i>anyone</i> know why I find these red and green sparklies (for lack of a better term) on so many coins, mostly pennies? If they are <b><i>known </i></b>to not be part of the minting process, then so be it. I have no problem with that. I am not deeply vested in that. I&#039;m not even <i>shallowly </i>vested in it. I only mentioned it as one possibility that had occurred to me, mainly because that would have been a logically convenient &quot;single point of failure&quot; (all coins <i>are</i> at some point located in the U.S. Mint; all coins are <i><b>not</b></i> at some point located at the bottom of Stacy Mae&#039;s red-and-green-glitter-laden purse).</p><p><br /></p><p>Since we&#039;re evidently not in a no-forking zone, allow me to fork myself: does anyone <i>else</i> find red and green sparklies on their coins?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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