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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Isn't this just the sort of thing that scares a lot of people away from any toning on coins?
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New Member
Canada
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I am fascinated by your toning experience. I have often thought about artificial toning but thought the subject was taboo. To me nothing is "taboo". I admire your courage. Very interesting. I have attempted artificial toning with poor results. I have a problem with toning in that when I attempt it I feel like I'm doing something wrong. I have never let this bother me much but obviously it does bother me. Your results look good to me. I am conflicted but I have spoken. I have not said much but I have spoken and that seldom happens.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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From your picture, I believe it ghas a very good chance at passing the 'toned' test.
I will admit, if this was an older coin, I may think it was naturally toned.
Or perhaps more important, if I thought it was atificially toned, it's a darned good one and would most likel;y be judges as 'Market Acceptable'.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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To answer the post about this being a 'dodgy practice'.
I think it's an excellent idea for all of us to experiment with AT.
Because it leads to education, experience and knowledge.
Where it becomes 'dodgy' (meaning unethical and fraudulent) involves our ethics and whether or not we as individuals will SELL said AT'd item as a naturally toned Gem.
Edited by doubleeagle59
01/06/2013 5:25 pm
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Valued Member
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When I first had the idea to do this; I had no expectations.
Now I feel kinda uneasy about the whole thing. hmm
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Valued Member
Canada
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Nothing wrong with experimenting.
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Valued Member
Canada
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Coin in hand , looks really ugly. (my opinion)
It's shinny a bit; like a washed coin would be sparkling.
It doesn't look natural. It does have a sparkling rainbow effect when rotated in the light.
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Pillar of the Community
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Ukee figured I would give it a shot... I tried the super heat as I mentioned in another thread and it was gray dull white ..That I expected ..But when you said stuff around the house ? well the silver dollar is a melt anyhow so I tried some other stuff.no heat no harsh chemicals....heres what I got...   |
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Valued Member
Canada
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The heat on Pennies has the same crazy rainbow colors as the original dollar pictured. Dont think it has the safe effect on silver as it does once the copper plating on the penny reacts to the flame.
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Pillar of the Community
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AZ....copper and the base inside reacts differently.. I once put a penny in the woodstove to see what would happen.. It was on a log so just the inside heat.. after 5 minutes NO PENNNY hahahha .... BUt I know if you heat copper ( many years plumbing ) it does change to that rainbow type effect
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Valued Member
Canada
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that interesting. I just tried to remove some of the toning and ended up with the most ugliest toning ever. MUTE!    the toning was applied randomly , and without any pattern. This is the complete opposite of some of the nicer coins available on ebay right now. The natural toning that's visually appealing has some pattern to it. Seems to be circular. If I try again, I'm going to try and get the toning where I want it, and not just let it happen. See what happens. |
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Ukee, have you tried anything else on it ? Try soaking it in Ketchup The acid in the tomato might have a nice reaction ?
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Valued Member
Canada
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I did artdio; I got mixed results. Ok, you have to go look at this; it's 3 years ago but very interesting: http://www.coinnews.net/2010/05/28/...ction-steps/  Altered Coin - smooth  Natural Coin - Crusty and flakey  Altered Coin - smooth  Natural Coin - crusty and flakey Here's the natural coin I used. I can only guess that nobody would have any good reason to alter this coin. http://www.ebay.com/itm/14089994794...t_500wt_1271I make no claims about this, it's just an observation. Experience is the rule, rather than the exception. I have a couple more coins cooking and will post results. While I can see a difference in the toning finish, I wonder if the results would be consistent smooth like that all the time! hmm |
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Australia
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Personally if I knew I had caused the toning there would be no way I could love it regardless of how exceptional it was.
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Valued Member
Canada
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I agree enworb; This coin was different. It came to me toned. I removed as much as I could, then re-toned it. The results are impressive; however I still see the flat smooth toning. Well that's it for me guys , I'm done ruining coins.  original tone - the red lines are the felt from the specimen case.  original tone - the red lines are the felt from the specimen case.  Re-toned  Re-toned  Altered - smooth Bottom line; it's easily done and it's unethical and if you profit from it, then it should be fraudulent and illegal. IMHO |
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