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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;LionelR, post: 1749187, member: 23549&quot;]Thank you for all the replies...&nbsp; A few answers, as best I can:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It IS almost like a grease but nothing has been sprayed or anything in the room that would have deposited it.&nbsp; There is nothing like it on the box upon which the coin rested.&nbsp; In other words, when I picked it up there wasn&#039;t a round &quot;clean spot&quot; on the box it rested.&nbsp; This staining only affected the maple.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The room is a 4&#039; x 6&#039; clothes closet adjoining the bedroom. It does have an outside wall, but all my rooms do so I can&#039;t do much about that <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; The walls are white paint, the floors are 70&#039;s style fake wood floor.&nbsp; There is a tin cold air return running through it from basement to upper floor.&nbsp; The bedroom is always 67-71 degrees with constant even humidity.&nbsp; Nothing in the closet or adjoining bedroom runs afoul of the list-o-things CoinTalk members say never put next to coins - PVC, brown envelopes, animals, etc.&nbsp; Just clothes... and an occasional dust bunny.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>No plants,&nbsp; aquariums, spraying, not even an open window.&nbsp; The closet and adjoining room and never fully closed off from good and clean and filtered ventilation.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I do not have a safe, but store everything in for-coin-storage cardboard boxes.&nbsp; GDJMSP, I appreciate your reminder of The Five Steps - I don&#039;t yet have 100% on all of them but do pretty well across the Five.&nbsp; Or think I do anyway.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Remains a mystery.... I have moved everything out of that closet.&nbsp; And have a free maple in the new location - my canary in the mine, so to speak.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Thank you all again!&nbsp; I&#039;ll keep working on it...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>-L[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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