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Message:: [QUOTE="George McClellan, post: 3236639, member: 92441"]Artificial: "made", an artifice, "intentional", not "man-one 25-to-life"... ...if there is no intent.  Market Acceptable: the bottom line.  Nickel and Copper should form a battery. An alloy of metals should form a molecular-level battery.Electrolysis!  IMHO, the only "natural" toning is from the "air", Oxygen (O and O2), Nitrogen (N and N2? unreactive), Argon (Ar very unreactive), and whatever toxins are floating around in the mint and leaving a "residue"... (CO2 ,an acid, "soot" , a polymer) et alia. After that, all toning is un-natural.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie57" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />  Toning is deliberate, (artificial) or "not deliberate". (The jury of peers, "The Truth", the signed confession, the guilty verdict or... or... the belated posthumous pardon.)  Toning is market acceptable or not market acceptable: The bottom line.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> If the "sniffer" had bleeding edge technology, all coins would be unique.[/QUOTE]