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Posted 05/17/2014 11:16 am
Aside of "ruining" them with a polish there's nothing you can do to remove that... Or a dip I guess, but again it would render it cleaned as well thus worth silver melt prices...
Also it would not go back to looking like the first pic you just posted, it would make it blast white with zero toning, which for the third time, would look much worse than the toning in either pic as it's a heavily circulated coin and should not appear blast white. There is no possible way you can make it look like the first pic again, cleaned or not... It's either going to be like it is or blast white... There is no in-between. You cannot make it look like photo A ever again.
And no, mint state does not mean original color necessarily, you can have heavily toned mint state coins (most of mine are, but again colorfully) toning has nothing to do with the grade. Natural state- means the coin wasn't tampered with, wether it's a MS or G grade, so your coins are actually considered "original condition".
The restoration services that the TPG's do does not render a coin cleaned.... It removes damage... PVC, vertigris etc... They don't "clean" your coins for you. Well... I guess if you request they might safely dip a coin for you to remove toning (which to me is 100% unacceptable) bit that would more often than not if not exclusively be for high grade MS coins with ugly toning... Not circulated coins. Again, there is no in-between, it's either toned.... Or it's not... You cannot get back to photo A!! And removing ALL of the toning from a MS coin would look FAR better than removing ALL the toning from a well circulated coin as it would look 10" times worse as a worn coin should not be blast white.
That... Is... What... Happens... To... Silver... Lol.... I don't know what else to tell you.... It happens to all coins as it's the natural progression of metals reacting with elements in the environment. If your father and law were still with you these coins would still appear as they do now... Would he clean them or appreciate them as they are? A lot of the old folders I inherited from my gramps toned in this manner. And I agree with Matthew, there's no ugly silver... Here's a shot of one of the quarters from my gramps album.... They ALL look like this but were much cleaner when he originally my put them in there.... But I would never dream of cleaning them off. I started a MS set to have high grade examples, but again would never touch these... Or the merc and rossie folders that are identical. They show honest circulated coins.
Also it would not go back to looking like the first pic you just posted, it would make it blast white with zero toning, which for the third time, would look much worse than the toning in either pic as it's a heavily circulated coin and should not appear blast white. There is no possible way you can make it look like the first pic again, cleaned or not... It's either going to be like it is or blast white... There is no in-between. You cannot make it look like photo A ever again.
And no, mint state does not mean original color necessarily, you can have heavily toned mint state coins (most of mine are, but again colorfully) toning has nothing to do with the grade. Natural state- means the coin wasn't tampered with, wether it's a MS or G grade, so your coins are actually considered "original condition".
The restoration services that the TPG's do does not render a coin cleaned.... It removes damage... PVC, vertigris etc... They don't "clean" your coins for you. Well... I guess if you request they might safely dip a coin for you to remove toning (which to me is 100% unacceptable) bit that would more often than not if not exclusively be for high grade MS coins with ugly toning... Not circulated coins. Again, there is no in-between, it's either toned.... Or it's not... You cannot get back to photo A!! And removing ALL of the toning from a MS coin would look FAR better than removing ALL the toning from a well circulated coin as it would look 10" times worse as a worn coin should not be blast white.
That... Is... What... Happens... To... Silver... Lol.... I don't know what else to tell you.... It happens to all coins as it's the natural progression of metals reacting with elements in the environment. If your father and law were still with you these coins would still appear as they do now... Would he clean them or appreciate them as they are? A lot of the old folders I inherited from my gramps toned in this manner. And I agree with Matthew, there's no ugly silver... Here's a shot of one of the quarters from my gramps album.... They ALL look like this but were much cleaner when he originally my put them in there.... But I would never dream of cleaning them off. I started a MS set to have high grade examples, but again would never touch these... Or the merc and rossie folders that are identical. They show honest circulated coins.
Edited by NathanASE
05/17/2014 11:58 am
05/17/2014 11:58 am
Or.... you can give them to me and I'll display them proudly, 
just playing..
