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After about 10 failed attempt, I was able to manualy tone a quarter. Its nothing great but see for your self  Edited by yuengling101
11/03/2011 4:07 pm
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Here was my second best result (by the way both of these coins started out as fairly shiny coins). Oh and by the way this is my junk silver, only worth its melt value so I have no concern about not manipulating the coins. personaly I think the franklin looks more natural.  |
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Ovens at 550 degrees Fahrenheit work wonders on clad, and cents.
Don't leave it in their to long though, and be careful not to break the zincolns.
Edited by brenpickle
11/03/2011 01:06 am
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Banana Peel in a brown paper bag.....
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Coppercoins posted once about using an old grease rag from an auto shop to tone cents. I'm really interested to try it on some of my coins.
Edited by Saruma
11/03/2011 11:43 am
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Here was my second best result (by the way both of these coins started out as fairly shiny coins). Oh and by the way this is my junk silver, only worth its melt value so I have no concern about not manipulating the coins. personaly I think the franklin looks more natural.
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Well I'm going to try to kinda perfect my method before releasing any info just for the fact that for every 1 I make look nice I make 5 others look like  |
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I think I'm finnaly on somthing here are some before and after pics of my most recent   |
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Burning gun powder does a good job.
Dish soap left on almost any coin works too, pending the brand.
Gun bluing solution makes them look really old.
I've always wondered if those people with really bad breath are the cause of some of the toning on coins.
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Start out buy applying a thin film of olive oil (most important step, you will ruin the coin if you do not do this), place it on the copper plate and make sure your able to heat the bottom with the tourch. heat the bottom until coin is very hot the put flame directly on the coin. Atfirst the coin will turn glossy black do to the oil but soon will burn off once it burns off, take some water and splash the top of the coin and quickly put the flame back to the coin just for a sec once you pull the flame away the rainbow tone should stay. quence the coin in water. at this point the top side will look nice but the bottom will be a gold, flip the coin and repeat. thats my method, takes about 10 minutes to do a coin. plus for some reason I could Only get this to work using the copper slab, I have no idea why. Heres a pic of the back of the quarter after I did the front.  Edited by yuengling101
11/03/2011 4:38 pm
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Also, I have only tried this on 90% silver coins, I have NO idea if this will work on any other coin
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Im thinking about doing this to a junk Morgan dollar. Its been cleaned and only worth melt, or should I leave it alone any way ? |
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I'd go for it! You can't really hurt it anymore than it already is.
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Ughh it didnt work, though I was able to make it look half decent it still looks like crap. For some reason I have a harder time with larger coins. I was only able to make 1 franklin look good out of 3 others. But quarters seem to work every time, I dont quite understand why
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where's biokemist when you need him?
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