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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;green18, post: 1521730, member: 10103&quot;]Excellent write up and explanation WingedLiberty.&nbsp; I thought you might take excetion to my devilish wise crack but you took it in stride and countered my post most marvelously.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now......who the devil uses those manila flips anymore? Can you even buy them anymore?&nbsp; A few years ago I was going through a lot of stuff from an old collection of mine....Stuff that I had amassed as a youngster and hadn&#039;t looked at in years. I had accumulated a lot of coins, medals, and halfs from the sixties (along with a few Morgan and Peace dollars) and I wanted to transfer them out and into new 2x2 cardboard holders.&nbsp; I was absolutely blown away by the colorful toning on the cent coins as well as a few of the Morgans.&nbsp; Reds, blues, greens, magenta&#039;s, but I must confess, had I cracked the collection out a few years earlier I would have been sadly disappointed with my find.&nbsp; You see, being a child of the sixties, I was stuck on the fact that coins should be either blast white or radiant red copper.&nbsp; It has been because of my exposure to this forum that I have reversed my old views regarding toning.&nbsp; I rather like and enjoy it nowadays.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Now to the question of artificial or natural.&nbsp; Back in the sixties we had little in the way of options to store our coins.&nbsp; It was either manila flips, coin albums or folders.&nbsp; Today we have much better storage means in the form of airtight holders or cardboard 2x2 holders or even PVC free plastic flips.&nbsp; The advancement to archival quality storage means coins will not age (tone) as quickly as they did in the past.&nbsp; For someone to use an antiquated means of storage (one that is known to be reactive in nature) is doing so for one reason, and one reason alone and that is to achieve this high rate of toning in the shortest period of time.&nbsp; The toning may be occurring naturally, but the intent to do so is not.&nbsp; It&#039;s to exploit the recent popularity of beautifully toned coins and gain as much money as possible in their production.......and it is production my friends.</p><p><br /></p><p>And Morgan Dude?&nbsp; I ain&#039;t trying to rain on anyones parade.&nbsp; I&#039;m just questioning the so called spin doctors motives.....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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