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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I just looked though my spare wheats and have a few cleaned and verdegris specimins to spare to this project.
PM if interested.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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change your eye burn into coin turn.  I have to do this now Pm sent! Edited by GoldenChest
02/14/2013 11:32 am
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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You know whats very sulfurous? Rotten eggs.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Eww. I dont want eggs rotting around my house lol. Tell you what ill slide a coin into an eggs and bury them and hope nothing digs it up! Lol
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Oh you can tone a silver coin with just a hard boiled egg yolk. Doesn't have to be rotten.
Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Gun bluing solutions work great. Now here is something you might want to try. Take the power out of a firecracker or gun ammo. Place in a zip lock plastic bag. Add any coins to that bag. Roll the bag tight and seal with glue. Place bag in a coffee type Aluminum can and almost seal the top closed. Throw a lighted match in the can. RUN. NO it does not tone coins but most likely you'll never find it to prove yes or no anyway.  Actually the Sulfur in the powder may well tone the coins fast. Just leaving those coins in that powder may do more than most other items. NO MATCH though. Edited by just carl
02/14/2013 4:32 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I did some more thinking on this topic (goes to show I have way too much free time) and I would NOT use cigarette smoke for toning. I have been dealing in antiques/collectibles for over 20 years. The estates I have worked or bought items from that belonged to cigarette smokers had a sticky, yellow, tar-like film on everything in the house. The smoke and nicotine will ruin everything. I guess it wouldn't hurt to experiment but I don't think I would do this to numerous coins. The only thing cigarette smoke is good for is toning healthy lungs.
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Valued Member
United States
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Hello all, I don't want to discuss my technique because it could really cause some problems in the collecting world, but this 1909S VDB was a bright shiny Chinese fake I got from ebay about four years back. I discovered a technique to age/tone it so it is very close to an original. I could easily do the same with a modern cent but haven't gotten around to it lately. I did this about a couple years ago with a few different coins but haven't experimented since. If someone would like, I could try to do a Y2K cent and see how it turns out. Mike  |
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United States
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Oh, and it only took about one hour of work and two days in the "magic" solution.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Hmm thats interesting. I'm curious yet see why you dont want to post your magic, lol
Picked up the pennies and dimes for the experiment, fresh bamk rolls . Argentum has donated.some wheat cents and I've thrown in some too. I just need to get some older junk silver and then I can start it. Ill post a list of the different conditions each set of coins will be subjected too. Probally tommorrow night. Exciting!
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Cheating is cheating it can not be changed, it is totally wrong.
To purposely go out a deceive a person about toning.....
After reading this I will never buy a coin because of toning!
just carl and sel_69l have given the best newbie answer to toning. Heaps of info and terms to search for.
Plus I have been given an understanding about where I stand with toning when it come to the area of collecting I am interested in.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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 Not surr who thats directed @. Sel_69l has.'t even replied to this thread. Unless you meant to reply to the toning thread you started? |
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Hi GoldenChest. Simply really if you are doing wrong then it is you.If you are not doing wrong then it is not you. Quote:
Cheating is cheating it can not be changed, it is totally wrong.
To purposely go out a deceive a person about toning.....
After reading this I will never buy a coin because of toning
But I add there is the question in collectables that this sort of information could be use by some one to...... Quote:
To purposely go out a deceive a person about toning..... And Yes I treasure the info I have been given about toning on my thread by the people you have mentioned. Edited by kg5
02/19/2013 6:20 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Ah I see what you are saying now. I've been thinking about that a lot actually and decided that I wont post the how-to of each experiment, just the whats, to help deter this information from being used wrong.
I also hope that it will show others what to look out for when looking at toned coins, give them a heads up on what artifically toned coins might look like. I'll be posting the whats of the experiment in a few minutes.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Ok so this is the list thus far of what I'm going to try toning with. There are 4 catalysts. Direct Sunlight Cold-Freezer Dark Heat- bottom of oven or on top of hot water heater, haven't decided yet. UV Light Each catalyst will have each of the following elements, safety pending. 1. A control 2. Taco Bell Napkin 3. McDonald's Napkin 4. Fast food grease 5. Cigarette smoke 6. Human Sweat 7. Nail Polish remover, not pure kind. 8. Motor oil 9. Windex 10. Laundry Soap 11. Dryer sheet 12. CLR 13. bleach 14. Sulfur Containing shampoo 15. Raw onion I believe a have enough silver nickels for each group, just waiting on getting some silver junk dime and we can start. Each group will have the following coins. 1 ea BU quarter, dime, nickel, Lincoln. mostly 2012s 1 Lincoln Cent 1959-82 1 Wheat penny, cleaned 1 G4 silver nickel 1 silver dime So I will have 60 of each coin total face value of $34.80. And I plan on rinsing all the coins with acetone before the experiment so they all start off on the same level. Edited by GoldenChest
02/20/2013 12:24 am
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