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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1727217, member: 112&quot;]As I said in post #4 of this thread, there are a thousand variables that play a part in how a coin tones. It is the combination of specific groups of those variables that determine the color the toning ends up being. </p><p><br /></p><p>Think about this for a second. How many different kinds of coin albums are there ? Each of the different kinds can have a different effect on the color of toning. Then each town where a collector lives has different humidity levels, and each house in that town can have different humidity levels. Same thing with temperature. Then you have the air itself. One town may have lots of factories, another just a few and yet another none at all. Those factories, or the lack of them, ends up changing the air in that town. And each house in each different town can have a different method form cooking, heating &amp; cooling. And each house may cook different things and in different ways. And some collectors may smoke, and some may not, and some may smoke more, or less, than another. All of these things, each one, cause different particulates to be put into the air. So with the air alone you have an almost infinite possibility of variables.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then you all of the different methods used for coin storage - albums, 2x2s, coin flips, coin rolls, envelopes, tissue paper, coin tubes - the list goes on. And different manufacturer of each one of things makes their product in a slightly different way. So each one reacts with coins differently. Couple that with all of the different possible variables for air, temperature, humidity, light, etc. and you have a whole lot of different colors that any given coin may tone. And you only have to change 1 specific variable out of all those different ones listed above to change the color.</p><p><br /></p><p>These are the kind of things that people don&#039;t think about because they don&#039;t realize that all of these things determine the color of toning that a coin ends up having. </p><p><br /></p><p>So can I tell you why this coin is this color and that coin is that color ? Yeah, it&#039;s because of all the different variables. But can I tell which specific combination of variables causes which specific colors ? No, because a hundred different combinations may produce 1 color and 300 different combinations may produce another color, and 3 different combinations may produce yet another color.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then just try to imagine what happens when a specific coin switches owners ? Everything changes then, and the toning changes with it. And if the coin changes owners more than once, yeah it all changes again.</p><p><br /></p><p>Understand now ?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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