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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1635373, member: 112"]Well yes, but - only if & when you add moisture into the equation. We used to have a member here named Catman, he was an old timer & a dear friend of mine that lived in Vegas. He passed quite a few years ago, but he told the story here on the forum of how he experimented with the wrapping coins in aluminum foil to protect them from the paper rolls. He would take a roll of BU cents, roll the coins up in aluminum foil, then insert that into the paper roll. He left some of those rolls alone for almost 50 years, never touched them. But he stored them properly to protect them from the air and humidity. When he opened those rolls and examined the coins, every single one of them looked like they had just come fresh from the mint. No toning, no spotting, no corrosion. Now if you go back far enough you can find where he himself related that story right here on this forum. And I personally went to his house and watched him open a few of those rolls. The secret was and is proper storage. It works.[/QUOTE]