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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1685349, member: 66&quot;]Tim, how rapidly a coin tones depends on the environmental conditions it is in.&nbsp; In some conditions the coin can tone in seconds, and in others it is possible a coin could go for decades, possibly even centuries without toning.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for your questio about what the coin would have looked like if you had pulled it out ten years earlier, there is no way to say.&nbsp; Depending on how the coin/envelope has been stored, all the toning seen today might have been there just a couple years after it was put in the envelope and then storage could have changed and no change has taken place in the last 25 year., it could and been a very slow gradual&nbsp; increasing and mellowing of the tone with slight changes each year, or could have been untoned until some time recently when storage conditions changed and all the toning has taken place recently.&nbsp; There is just no way to say what it would have looked like ten years ago unless we looked at it ten years ago.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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