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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 8213779, member: 112&quot;]There have been quite a few theories about what causes milk spots, but that&#039;s all they are - theories. The truth is no one actually knows what causes milk spots, least of all the mint, or any mint, because not a single one of them has ever been able to prevent them from developing on some coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>And of thinks about these theories for a just a minute it soon becomes obvious that none of the theories about how and why milk spots from are or even can accurate. The reason for this is simplicity itself. The reason is if it was something, or anything, that &quot;got on the coin&quot;, whatever that something was could be easily removed without harming the coin ! </p><p><br /></p><p>But to this day no one has ever been able to find any method of removing milk spots without permanently harming, damaging, the coin. Therefore the spots cannot be &quot;on&quot; the coin, they have to be &quot;in&quot; the coin. In other words, physically within the metal itself - and thus incapable of being removed without permanently damaging the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>This pretty much leads us to only one likely theory, that the milk spots are caused by some sort of impurity within the molten metal when the alloy is mixed. And, that milk spots only show up on those coins when that impurity, by pure chance, happens to end up close enough to the surface of the coin for it/them (the spots) to become visible after a given amount of time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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