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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1450314, member: 112&quot;]Not at all. That&#039;s because I&#039;ve seen haze on Proofs from all date ranges, modern ranges anyway. Coins that came in the hard plastic cases had haze more often than those that came in the pliofilm.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have long thought that haze is nothing more than the very beginning stages of toning. I have seen coins that had haze on them, in time develop into very attractively toned coins. They don&#039;t always, sometimes they just get plain ugly. But then that&#039;s how it is with toning.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is also possible, maybe even likely, that haze is caused or related to the washing that the planchets go through before being struck. And if you think about that makes a certain amount of sense. Thousands of planchets go through the washing process all at the same time. So it seems logical to me that some of them may not get as thoroughly rinsed as the rest. And perhaps it is these that later develop the haze. That thinking is somewhat reinforced by the fact that not all Proofs do develop haze, only some of them do.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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