Does This Bother Anyone?

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Originally posted by Morgan Fred

TLS, I like your avatar. Reminds me of Robert Service's Call of the Wild and his other Yukon poetry. (I have an adventuresome spirit loose in me, perhaps the reason why I travel and live in wilderness and other wild locations.)

Anyway, back on topic, I inadvertently plunked a chuck of sulfur (I play around with chemistry) into a mug, forgot about it, and threw in pocket change: a bunch of nickels, dimes, and mostly quarters. A few months later, I pulled the coins out and most had turned the gamet of colors from very light tan to almost black. These were all modern coins, either clad or composition; only a few actually were in contact with the sulfur - the rest were exposed only to its vapors. I shudder to think what it would have done to my Morgan silver dollar collection.

It doesn't take much to tone a coin. The trick is to do it with panache.

Fred

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Thanks Fred,
I like it also. I have spent most of my life traversing the wilds of Alaska and Montana. I spend all my free time I can,in the mountains,enjoying the clean air and waters.As far as the avatar,it has a personal meaning to me. I use to have a dog that was 3/4 wolf. He was pure white and the most loyal pet I ever had. So your birthdays in November huh? Me to.

Glad to have gotten lots of feedback on this. I have only been looking at coins from a collector's eye for about a month, but some of the toning on these coins look artificial. I guess it is possible to make artificial toning look genuine, and genuine can look fake. Guess it all comes down to what you find appealing.

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Originally posted by TLS5933

Thanks Fred,
I like it also. I have spent most of my life traversing the wilds of Alaska and Montana. I spend all my free time I can,in the mountains,enjoying the clean air and waters.As far as the avatar,it has a personal meaning to me. I use to have a dog that was 3/4 wolf. He was pure white and the most loyal pet I ever had. So your birthdays in November huh? Me to.

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I gotta git to bed (us old men get to bed early), so will retort to Rick and make normal responses to other posts on this thread manana, but I gotta response to the wild while it's fresh in my mind:

"I have flouted the Wild. I have followed its lure, fearless, familiar, alone;
By all that the battle means and makes I claim that land for mine own;
Yet the Wild must win, and a day will come when I shall be overthrown."

From The Heart of the Sourdough by Robert Service (I've got his complete Yukon poems book, but it's back to home in the desert). I'm a Robert Service (and Kipling) nut. My wilderness experiences have cost me dearly, figuratively and literally.
http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/yukon01.html

Fred

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Originally posted by Metalman

Fred Please make a note that I have shown restraint and did not pop off some dastardly old guy comment ,, I figured that it would not be nice to say anything resembling an old comment nor did I express anything about dinosaurs and or dirt !!

Nor did I make any comments concerning a revertation to ones youth !!

I just wanted you to know !!

I unlike someone else have self control !!

Rick

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Rick, yes, I did take note regarding your non-mention of us dinosaurs and dirt, but you failed to non-mention trees and fossils. Your assiduous self-control resisting the temptation to not mention it is admirable, a clear reflection of your tender years and inexperience with reversion to such youth.

Fred

I thought this thread would appreciate these auctions:

http://search-completed.ebay.com/_W...04QQsatitleZ

Sadly, he has bids on them.

I have had a couple bad experiences so far on ebay. Maybe I am impatient, but I think 3-4 weeks is more than enough time for my stuff to arrive. Add this to the "toning" and I am starting to second guess where I buy. I know there are other options, and I am about to use them.