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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I honestly like a evenly brown colored Lincoln more then I do Red. I am looking to build a completely brown MS set of Lincolns and look here for some advice.
So my question is, how can I turn my MS red Lincolns into nice brown coins? I do not want to use any darkening stuff, or do anything to alter the coin. Will leaving them in the sun darken the coin or only tone it? Confused which is which.
If I cannot brown up some of my own, I'll simply roll search for nice examples. Maybe I sound crazy, but it gives me another excuse to start another album and stuff to look for when roll searching etc..
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I like the look of the brown coins also. You realize of course that the value drops significantly from Red to Red-Brown to Brown. This could work in your favor as far as purchase cost but I would attempt to sell the RD & RB instead of darking them and lowering their value. With early date Lincolns, you could quickly be looking at a 5 figure loss going from RD to BN on MS coins.
I'll tell you what - I've got some great raw BN early ('09-'32) Lincolns. I'll trade you for the Red ones!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It's weird how brown coins can still be considered mint state since it no longer looks like how it first looked when produced.
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Valued Member
United States
178 Posts |
i wouldn't turn red to brown, I would sell my reds and buy browns and then something else with the extra moneys
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2600 Posts |
Or, apply a healthy dose of time.
Jim
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Pillar of the Community
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1179 Posts |
Well I'm not turning nice MS wheats into brown. There will be no coin that is red with a substantial value turning to brown at all. I have a nice MS red album going now, I just thought that I'd like to turn some MS memorials into a nice brown set, then fill holes with your typical brown wheats, not too concerned with grade with this set, since its more for fun. How many people do you know with a nice brown set from 09-08? :)
So there will be no money lost here at all, just for fun. Now the question remains, is this even feasible?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I know that Kraft envelopes can be used to retone silver after it has been cleaned and I would think that it would work on copper as well.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I guess I'm not sure what a Kraft envelope is :(
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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a taco bell napkin (the brown ones) will tone a silver coin also, but not sure what it will do to a Lincoln Cent |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Just set them on a window sill and crack the window. Air and light will start them browning, occassionally pick them up, rub between your fingers (oil/contaminants) and flip. It might take many months, but they will start to turn.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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KRAFT PULP Pulp created by cooking the wood chips in a liquor made up chiefly of sodium sulphate. The resultant pulp may be bleached or unbleached and is noted for its strength of fiber. http://www.envelopesexpress.com/products/view/E374(not an endorsement of retailer, just an example) BTW, this is considered to be a completely natural process by most collectors since no chemicals are applied and the coin is not manipulated in any manner- you just put them in the envelope and check periodically until the desired color is reached(much in the same manner as using an old Wayte Raymond album). Many old time collections have been stored in Kraft coin envelopes back in the days before airtites and 2x2s. Edited by biokemist6
04/22/2008 11:02 am
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Just set them on a window sill and crack the window. Air and light will start them browning, occassionally pick them up, rub between your fingers (oil/contaminants) and flip. It might take many months, but they will start to turn.
As BadThad said just put them on a window sill. Browning of Copper is purely an Oxygenation process and takes a little time pending that amount of humidity, Oxygen, temperature in your area. It may take a little time but again pending the invironment in your area. DO NOT try other artificial methods since those may tend to discolor a coin in other directions. Also, other methods may tend to change only partially.
In reality you would be better off purchasing a $50 bag of cents from a bank and probably finding most of what you want.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Yeah I thought about the window sill thing too. I think I will try it just for fun. I have gone through many boxes of pennies, but until now I didnt really think about keeping nice MS brown coins....thats if I can find them! Thanks for all the input fellas!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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As to the window sill method. Note if you use a kitchen window sill and there is a lot of cooking in your family, those coins may tend to brown faster due to the fumes from the cooking. Also, this depends on what is cooked, the window left open, temperatures, humidity all in your area.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
543 Posts |
You definatley shouldnt make them brown!
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Posted 04/20/2008 11:48 pm
