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While I would never do this to a vintage, rare or valuable coin. I wanted to see what would happen to an every day quarter if I put it on my wood stove for a few hours. I like the results.   What do you think? |
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I like it. For honesty sake, label it as AT for anyone who finds it in the future. John1  |
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Pillar of the Community
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good advice on the labeling...ty. This coin is going in a piggy bank I've had since I was 8 years old. My kids will get it someday.
I would feel bad getting rid of a coin that I altered myself even if I labeled it....unless I was asked to alter before someone bought.
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Looks cool. I can appreciate the artistic angle, just do not try to get rich from it.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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I like it. the reverse really turned out nicely. The purple just pops!
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Bedrock of the Community
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I think experiements like this are a good thing.
It might give you understanding of how a coin
might get toned.
So in the future, you might not be fooled by a AT coin.
But as has been posted ... Trying to sell coins like this
as NT coins ... Would be bad
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02/02/2016 4:18 pm
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GR58 has a great point. The best way in the world to know what a dipped coin looks like is to dip some; cleaned coin by cleaning some; polished coin by polishing some; artificial toning by doing as you have done.
The experimentation, when done as a learning process, will give you a much better idea of all of those changes that occur to coins after they are minted.
Gosh, that coin really is beautiful. I would have been fooled on that one, I think.
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Pillar of the Community
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Your quarter looks nice. Next you will have to experiment with a silver dollar. Any idea what caused the toning in only a few hours?
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Pillar of the Community
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@jimNWLincoln... I just set quarter on hot wood stove for a few hours. This is what heat does to a quarter.
Don't think I want to try with silver dollar as they tend to be more collectible, I don't want to purposely alter one.
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Bedrock of the Community
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After reading this a local guy asked me to make a couple for him. So I did ... when I got home. My problem is it hard for me to capture the color. The guy spends big money on toned Morgan's, so he wanted a reference    |
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those look just like the dime and nickel I tried as well...had to have set. I did this because I like the rainbow toning in coins. I believe all ASEs that have a rainbow toning are ATs. Am I right? I used to work in foundry with silver and bronze statues...a lot of rainbow toned coins I see for sale on ebay and elsewhere look just like coins we used to heat up in the metal pouring room there. Wanted to show you...so some can be aware of this when buying. P.s. the "experiment" for me was to see if I could and how long it took to rainbow a coin on a wood stove. So Beware ANYONE with a decent source of direct heat ie hand held torch, woodstoves or even a good oven can do this and sell them on as "natural toning" for a premium. Edited by MontCollector
02/02/2016 7:28 pm
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Nice work, GR58!  |
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Artificial toners are to naturally toned coins what Chinese (or other) counterfeiters are to genuine coins.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Nice work, GR58 Thanks Jbuck. I wish I could capture the color the clad proof has in hand. When you see the colors these coins have, after heating them up, and you see others that might be trying to sell similar coins, I think I most would automatically suspect them as AT. At least I would hope they would. Even thought they are AT ... I like the colors so much, I can see myself doing a complete set of Ike's someday. Of course, just for educational purposes only. |
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Of course, just for educational purposes only. |
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Yeah, I would never do that to a coin, unless I wanted to.  |
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Posted 02/02/2016 05:25 am
