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 Posted 02/22/2011  02:35 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add GRR to your friends list
Maybe the airtite wasn't sealed well, I've gotten coins from the mint where the seal was bad.
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 Posted 02/22/2011  03:09 am  Show Profile   Check BH1964's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add BH1964 to your friends list
That toning looks good to me but if you like blast white coins.....

Is the first one a reverse proof?
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 Posted 02/22/2011  04:09 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Rsxtacee to your friends list
Hmmmmm indeed. It may have been improperly handled before being put into the airtite. And like the others said, it may not have a good seal, or the way it's being stored is contributing to the toning. Could be all 3. The toning itself doesn't look bad. Definitely look into a dehumidifier like Schnauzer said. Are any of your other coins that you purchased around the same time exhibiting toning? If not, then I'm guessing ungloved hands are the culprit.
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 Posted 02/22/2011  07:19 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coin Chaser to your friends list
The toning I like but it those spots that really bother me. The coins were never touched and have always been in the same environment.
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 Posted 02/22/2011  08:55 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add just carl to your friends list
You may want to buy some air tights and transfer any coins showing toning to them. Then place the air tights in a 2x2 just to make sure. Whatever is causing that toning is already inside with the coins, so leaving them in there is not a good idea. Either something was in there when closed or there is an air leak in them now. Really small air leaks may take time but eventually will do that.
As noted toning, tarnishing, spotting, corroding, etc. to anything metal is created by substances in the air. A multitude of gases are always present such as moisture, Oxygen, Chlorine, Flourine, Sulfur Oxides and on and on.
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 Posted 02/22/2011  12:47 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add onejinx to your friends list
If the spots are white milky looking, the mint has had issues with this on ASE's. No one has come up with an exact reason to why it happens and as far as I know there is no known fix for it.
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 Posted 02/22/2011  5:23 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Bryan1315 to your friends list
I am guessing they are still in the mint capsules they were shipped in and I am not sure they are air tight like the after market airtite's are
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 Posted 02/22/2011  5:52 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list
I have noticed that the capsules in my Lincoln Coin and Chronicles set tend "open up" or loosen over time. I have had to press them tight a few times and have wondered if they would eventually pop open completely. The OGP capsules are nothing like the Air-Tite brand capsules.
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 Posted 02/22/2011  6:10 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Conder101 to your friends list

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I am not sure they are air tight like the after market airtite's are

I don't think you can assume that Airtite's are air tight either. I think if you check with the company you will find that they don't warrant the holders to be air tight either.
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 Posted 02/22/2011  7:46 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coin Chaser to your friends list
Any advice on some type of cleaning or Leave it alone. It really bothers me but I don't want to screw it up. Thanks
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 Posted 02/22/2011  8:39 pm  Show Profile   Check BH1964's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add BH1964 to your friends list
I would not attempt to remove the spots/hazing/toning unless you have no concern about reducing them to melt value. They don't look that bad in the pictures.
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 Posted 02/22/2011  11:34 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add biggfredd to your friends list
Leave them alone or pay ncc to do it right.
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 Posted 02/22/2011  11:46 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Johnny1328 to your friends list
If it happend in the last 6 months it could be something else that caused it to tone that you added to your safe if thats where you kept them. I think anytype of battery, say like in a watch or something might cause that.
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 Posted 02/23/2011  11:27 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coin Chaser to your friends list
WOW what a jolt. We moved some coins into a new safe that has the digital combination and supported by two batteries. I never thought this could be a problem.
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 Posted 02/23/2011  11:34 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add just carl to your friends list

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Any advice on some type of cleaning or Leave it alone. It really bothers me but I don't want to screw it up. Thanks

Dangerous if you don't know exactly what and/or how to do that. could end up doing worse than now.

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WOW what a jolt. We moved some coins into a new safe that has the digital combination and supported by two batteries. I never thought this could be a problem.


Highly unlikely those batteries created that problem. They are usually incased in a holder and very doubtfull of an electrical current running through anything from them.
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