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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 7824228, member: 112"]The plastic may or may not be a problem, depending on what kind of plastic it is. But the felt, the glue that holds the felt in place, and the cardboard, those are all known problems which do contribute to toning. </p><p><br /></p><p>But that's just the beginning, there are without doubt hundreds if not a thousand other things in your home that also contribute to toning. And given what you've reported it's a combination of all of it that caused the coins to tone in the time you've had them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Toning is inevitable, all coins do and are going to tone to one degree or another. Put another way, toning cannot be stopped. But, with proper storage we can slow it down immensely. And in that proper storage is complicated simply because it involves so many things, it is also really very simple and easy to accomplish if one wishes to do so. And it has been discussed and spelled out in more threads than I care to count.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 7824228, member: 112"]The plastic may or may not be a problem, depending on what kind of plastic it is. But the felt, the glue that holds the felt in place, and the cardboard, those are all known problems which do contribute to toning. But that's just the beginning, there are without doubt hundreds if not a thousand other things in your home that also contribute to toning. And given what you've reported it's a combination of all of it that caused the coins to tone in the time you've had them. Toning is inevitable, all coins do and are going to tone to one degree or another. Put another way, toning cannot be stopped. But, with proper storage we can slow it down immensely. And in that proper storage is complicated simply because it involves so many things, it is also really very simple and easy to accomplish if one wishes to do so. And it has been discussed and spelled out in more threads than I care to count.[/QUOTE]
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