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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4892463, member: 19463"]It will be interesting to see what the currently popular 'toners' look like in another fifty years. Those of you who have 50 years left, let me know. I agree with DonnaML that the circulating dollars I saw as a kid were grey and never rainbow. My Grandfather gave each of his grandchildren a silver dollar each Christmas. I still have about a dozen of mine. My generation is about the youngest that have spent silver dollars and 1964 pretty much stopped circulation of dollars. I was graduated from college in 1968 which was the last year the government would exchange paper for real silver. Kids younger than teens would rarely have that much spending money at one time. The layers that would show rainbow colors are very thin so I would expect them to change. An ancient cleaned in 1880 and a dollar made that year could go through similar progressions. Change is natural. The question is whether putting a dollar in a drawer so it will be exposed to fumes from wood and other things is more natural than dipping it in a chemical of the same substances. I once found a beautifully toned nickel in a parking lot that had just been paved with hot asphalt. It sat in glaring sun in fumes for a week at most. Natural?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4892463, member: 19463"]It will be interesting to see what the currently popular 'toners' look like in another fifty years. Those of you who have 50 years left, let me know. I agree with DonnaML that the circulating dollars I saw as a kid were grey and never rainbow. My Grandfather gave each of his grandchildren a silver dollar each Christmas. I still have about a dozen of mine. My generation is about the youngest that have spent silver dollars and 1964 pretty much stopped circulation of dollars. I was graduated from college in 1968 which was the last year the government would exchange paper for real silver. Kids younger than teens would rarely have that much spending money at one time. The layers that would show rainbow colors are very thin so I would expect them to change. An ancient cleaned in 1880 and a dollar made that year could go through similar progressions. Change is natural. The question is whether putting a dollar in a drawer so it will be exposed to fumes from wood and other things is more natural than dipping it in a chemical of the same substances. I once found a beautifully toned nickel in a parking lot that had just been paved with hot asphalt. It sat in glaring sun in fumes for a week at most. Natural?[/QUOTE]
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