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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3112176, member: 56859&quot;]Unless by &quot;not natural&quot; you mean painted on, I have some thoughts on this.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are many interesting and lively threads on CoinTalk regarding toning-- not only on the Ancients board but also on the US board.</p><p><br /></p><p>I live in a high humidity warm environment, with salt air, sporadic volcanic ash, and Saharan dust.&nbsp; If I leave a silver coin or jewelry uncovered on my table for very long it will tone, sometimes quite attractively and definitely much faster than it would tone in, say, Arizona.&nbsp; If I purposefully leave a coin on my table, have I artificially toned it?&nbsp;&nbsp; What if I leave a coin out by accident?&nbsp;&nbsp; If I buy an wood coin cabinet that off-gasses substances that accelerate toning of silver, have I artificially toned the coins stored within?&nbsp; Does it matter if I bought the cabinet intentionally to speed up the toning?&nbsp; What if I did it not knowing that it would tone the coins?</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not saying this to be antagonistic but to point out that &quot;artificial&quot; toning isn&#039;t as clear cut as some might think.&nbsp; All silver will tone.&nbsp; The speed varies by many factors.&nbsp; People knowingly and unknowingly do things which speed up that process.</p><p><br /></p><p>Personally-- and I may be in the minority here-- I&#039;m not overly concerned about how long it took for a particular coin to acquire its toning.&nbsp; I also don&#039;t expect my coins with lovely toning to have that same lovely toning in ten years.&nbsp;&nbsp; If I like a coin&#039;s current look I try to store it in a way that slows the change, but I view tone as an ephemeral thing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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