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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 2726946, member: 112"]I've always had a problem with that concept. Not that I deny it of course, yes some Morgans absolutely did acquire their toning while sitting in those mint bags for all those decades. But here's the issue, these are the dates and mints of all the coins from the GSA sales. GSA coin quantities The accepted quantities of each date were: •    1878CC - 61,000 •    1879CC - 4,100 •    1880CC - 131,500 •    1881CC - 147,500 •    1882CC - 605,000 •    1883CC - 755,500 •    1884CC - 962,600 •    1885CC - 148,300 •    1890CC - 3,950 •    1891CC - 5,700 one each of the 1889-CC, 1892-CC, and 1893-CC The remainder consisted of approximately 125,000 circulated and uncirculated Dollars from various other mints. So unless the attractively toned Morgans that everybody talks about are of those specific dates and mints, then they didn't sit in mint bags for all those decades to acquire that toning. They got it in another way. And a great many of them due the way they were stored by the collectors who held them. And primarily in fairly recent years. And what were those storage methods ? Paper envelopes for a large part of them. You have to remember that coin rolls were not even in widespread use until the 1930's, and neither were coin albums. For the most part coins albums, aside from the early coin folders which didn't even exist until the late '30s, as we know them didn't exist until the '50s and later. Of course some coins were stored in all kinds of various other ways, some in jars, some in tins, some just laying in drawers, or even wrapped in paper. But the point is of all these attractively toned Morgans that we see most of them were not stored in mint bags for decades. They acquired their toning in other ways, and a large majority of them even during my lifetime. But yes, there were some others, besides those of the dates and mints listed above, that were still in their original mint bags. But there were not really large numbers of those bags. And of those that did still exist, the bags were stored in all sorts of different ways, many of them out west in very dry climates. Yes, absolutely yes. Your impression is correct, Morgans do tone differently, as do all other coins. And the reason they all tone differently, even when stored in exactly the same place and exactly the same manner, is because they all have different kinds of luster. Even coins of the same type, same date, same mint, will have varying degrees of luster. And that makes a difference in how they tone, or don't.[/QUOTE]

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