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Message:: [QUOTE="desertgem, post: 3128314, member: 15199"]No coin offends, and most experts come from being involved for decades with such. The life of most coins involve many different environments and affecting factors, so that to get coins from various parts of the world to appear exactly the same effect would be unusual unless they were purposely kept in similar environments since the mint, or very low coincident percentages. The clad layers of a dime are made of nickel and copper. Both form dark oxides over time , depending on the atmosphere. humidity, other gases in the environment, and TIME.   Nickel2Oxide3 forms a grey to black oxide. Many have seen bright dimes, light grey dimes, medium grey dimes, dark grey dimes, and even sometime Blackish dimes after many years. In most toning sequences the medium colors are the most transitional and that is why many want their coins toned, not too light and not too dark. Finding coins matching in tone is easier from a collection where they were all exposed to the same factors, than hunting for them . Silver tones easily, but nickel takes much longer, There are probably hundreds the exact shade as yours, but most people aren't noticing it. Good luck.[/QUOTE]