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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1460513, member: 112"]Toning and tarnish are EXACTLY the same thing, and both are "in" the metal not on it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Patina ? Well, that depends on who you ask, and I suppose to some degree it also depends on the particular coin you are talking about. Different people have different definitions that they use for words. But if you look patina up in the dictionary it can be defined as toning, (in the metal), or it can be defined as an incrustation, (on the metal). Either one is perfectly correct.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1460513, member: 112"]Toning and tarnish are EXACTLY the same thing, and both are "in" the metal not on it. Patina ? Well, that depends on who you ask, and I suppose to some degree it also depends on the particular coin you are talking about. Different people have different definitions that they use for words. But if you look patina up in the dictionary it can be defined as toning, (in the metal), or it can be defined as an incrustation, (on the metal). Either one is perfectly correct.[/QUOTE]
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