At Vs Nt On Coins And Medals

Here goes,

I use angle to bring out toning. It works very well. What also works is changing the angle of the light and the camera.

This is the same coin, I simply moved the light so it cut through the patina:

Here's another example of moving the light and changing the camera angle to capture toning:

Looks like that one spent some time with a blowtorch Raymo

Lol a guy was selling these on ebay. Used a laser to create them. I think it was a buck fiddy, free ship.

I love Lincolns from about '09 to '15 that turn that cool purple black color that still lets a little bit of red through. Does anyone know how a coin gets to be that way? Like this one or like the 1910 a couple of posts up.

Got a few more pics. Thanks for lookin' John1

Thanks, BadThad. That answer is pleasingly mysterious. A side note is that while people generally expect, and deserve, a premium for nice toning, the grading services usually call them BN, meaning that with enough careful searching one can find a coin that just in terms of attractiveness gives good value per dollar paid. One reason I love the humble Lincoln is that it can evolve so many ways. Many turn into little works of art. (Of course silver coins can, as well, no doubt.)