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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mike at APMEX, post: 3122706, member: 90306&quot;]<b>Garrett states that &quot;Our only disappointment was the relatively small number of attractively toned coins. There are probably less than 100 examples with rainbow toning. I would have thought that 50 years of sitting in cloth bags would have produced a much different result in that regard. Nearly all of the coins are frosty white in appearance.”</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>The only coins that would have had ANY toning would have been those that were in direct contact with the bag itself. Those coins sandwiched between other coins within the bag would not have received any toning whatsoever. And even those in contact with the cloth bag are not guaranteed to tone. It is the Sulphur on the bag that causes the coins to tone. Not the cloth of the bag. Sulphur was liberally applied to the bags to keep rodents from chewing on the bags.</p><p><br /></p><p>If the bags were stored in a humidity controlled vault, and if little Sulphur was applied directly to these bags, then the results are completely consistent with what one should expect.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Silver dollars not exposed to humidity and not exposed to Sulphur should not be expected to tone.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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