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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1818102, member: 112&quot;]If you were to ever look at two such coins in person, I believe you&#039;d see the difference in an instant.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>But Air-Tites are not airtight, no coin holder is. And the cause of toning is the air itself, moisture content is but one component of the air. So the best any of us can hope for is to slow toning down, but it can never be stopped given what we have to work with now.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, Air-Tites were my personal preference for coin holders. But along with a good holder you still have to utilize proper storage methods to have any hope of slowing toning down as much as you can.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah, it would help, but no such coin holder exists.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And that&#039;s pretty common, lots of folks see things the same way you do. And that is also the reason why 80% or more of all older silver coins have been dipped at least once, and many of them more than once. But most who like &quot;nice and shiny&quot; don&#039;t realize that toning is inevitable. Stopping toning is like trying to negate gravity, it can&#039;t be done. But you can slow it down.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Sure there is, it&#039;s called lacquer, shellac, varnish, and even lucite. And it is a method that was put into use&nbsp; by people who like &quot;nice and shiny&quot; long before you and I were born. It is also a method that people stopped using decades ago. That is because a coated coin is considered a damaged coin by just about everyone in the numismatic community.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only method accepted by the numismatic community is a quality coin holder and proper storage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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