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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Detecto92, post: 1413025, member: 75105&quot;]Okay so I understand toning is just a nice way of saying tarnish.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coins can tone in all sorts of ways, it can have a beautiful rainbow tone, a dull, grey tone, or it can be thick, black, and ugly.</p><p><br /></p><p>I understand all that...</p><p><br /></p><p>But here is what I want to learn.</p><p><br /></p><p>If coins can tone in rainbows, why don&#039;t I see other silver toning like this as well? Like silver jewelry, flatware, etc. No I&#039;m not talking about silver colored or silver plated, I mean sterling silver items. I never seen a set of sterling flatware tone with rainbow colors, and I have not seen a sterling silver ring tone like that either.</p><p><br /></p><p>Almost all toning of silver, except coins, I have never seen tone in a rainbow fashion. So that is my 1st question.</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Why do silver coins tone into a rainbow, but other silver items don&#039;t?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>2. How long does it take silver coins to tone? Can it happen overnight? Or does it take many years?</p><p><br /></p><p>3. Do coins keep toning? Do they just get better and better looking as years pass? </p><p><br /></p><p>4. Is there a time when the coin stops toning.</p><p><br /></p><p>5. Is there anything that can be done to a coin to keep its current toning intact, and stop it from toning further.</p><p><br /></p><p>6. Is there a way to rapidly tone silver coins that won&#039;t be labeled as artificial?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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