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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gbroke, post: 1539866, member: 22585&quot;]All I keep reading is to</p><p>&quot;put them in an old whitman album&quot;, or</p><p>&quot;put them in a manila envelope&quot;...etc</p><p><br /></p><p>The fact is, these things will have very little impact on toning by themselves.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some of you have eluded to it, but the bottom line is this:</p><p><b>Toning has more to do with the actual environment, temperature, humidity,&nbsp; and air quality then it does with the medium the item is stored in. In conjunction with the luster of the coin.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>Also, as Doug mentioned, luster and grade of the coin is also a major factor. The more luster, the easier it will tone. Luster exposes more surface area&nbsp; of the coin to the air, therefore is much more prone to tone.</p><p><br /></p><p>As Dougie fresh once illustrated, a coin surface with luster looks like this&nbsp; /\/\/\/\&nbsp; as opposed to circulated coins where the surface looks like this ~~~~~ or ---------.&nbsp; Ya dig?</p><p><br /></p><p>A coin will tone in a brand new Dansco album, or just sitting on a shelf without being in any envelope or album at all. It is because of the environment and air exposure, not the storage device.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is not to say old albums and papers won&#039;t encourage toning. Some of them certainly have chemicals or other agents that will speed up the process. However, this doesn&#039;t mean that a coin will tone just because it is in one of these old holders. It won&#039;t tone more times than it will. Even if it does tone, most of the time it will not be a desirable color or pattern. More often than not, these old albums have damaged coins as opposed to giving them desirable tonal patterns.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here are two recent example of modern coins that have toned just due to air exposure. You can clearly see which ends were exposed.</p><p>They were in a bank roll, meaning, not full of the same chemicals used by the old rolls and albums:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://cdn4.sharemyco.in/shared_ii173124150611fdb6f650.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://cdn5.sharemyco.in/shared_ii17313137506120129971f.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Here are a few examples of coins that have toned while being in modern Danscos.</b></p><p><b>This one was nearly blast white when I put it in the 7070 3 years ago.</b></p><p><img src="http://cdn5.sharemyco.in/shared_ii9759624fc27771d5db5.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>More Dansco toning:</b></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://cdn3.sharemyco.in/shared_ii26657524fc2704d4d07f.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://cdn2.sharemyco.in/shared_ii2669294501dcd406cc25.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://cdn5.sharemyco.in/shared_ii93665714fd2e124e70f2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>So, how do you &quot;naturally&quot; tone coins?</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>You let nature do it. Sit back, crack a beer and wait.</p><p><br /></p><p>-greg[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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