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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;nerosmyfavorite68, post: 25501440, member: 134416&quot;]Not so. I prefer toning and am rather irked when ancients are cleaned to bright white. I wouldn&#039;t mind if the coin started to naturally tone.&nbsp; This discoloration looks different than toning on ancient silver.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Some collectors of ancients even start their bright white coins on the toning journey by sticking it on a sunny ledge and/or liver of sulfur. They usually end up with moderate rainbow toning, not this dark, rusty color.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Morgan which vanished in the mail was highly toned.&nbsp; The photograph of the missing 1884 is much more commensurate to what 100+ year old silver should look like.</p><p><br /></p><p>Freeing the coin from its tomb will allow me to examine the rims.&nbsp; From what I can tell there seems to be some kind of raised encrustation of the same rusty color spilling over the edges.&nbsp; The .dngs of the original from two months ago suggest those were already there, I just didn&#039;t notice them.&nbsp; It will at least be much less alarming if the &#039;raised&#039; encrustations were just an optical illusion.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>A photograph of the vanished coin does suggest that a similar discoloration was happening on the stars and around the E Pluribus legend.&nbsp; I&#039;m guessing that quite a few years of residing in a coin cabinet caused this toning, not a couple of months of exposure.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1632583[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I recently purchased a shipwreck coin.&nbsp; They at least had the sense not to clean it to bright white.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1632584[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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