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Pillar of the Community
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I have an empty Jack Daniels (hicup) bottle that I throw my modern common date pocket change into. Last night I began rolling it to cash it in for spending money at an upcoming coin show. I noticed that several of the Jefferson nickels had very nice toning on them which they did not have prior to going into the bottle. The bottle was washed and allowed to completely dry before I added any coins to the bottle. Could residual alcohol have had this effect on the coins? Only the nickels were effected ,no dimes or quarters were toned. The bottle sits on the floor out of direct sunlight. |
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Moderator
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Sounds like your nickels had one too many!
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Washing and drying should have removed all the alcohol. Did you use detergent to wash the bottle out with? That's the only toning accelerant I can think of that could be in there to cause this... unless JD uses some kind of strange glass composition to make it's bottles out of. Quote:
Only the nickels were effected ,no dimes or quarters were toned. Pardon my ignorance of US coins, but isn't the same cupronickel alloy used to make both nickels and the clad layer on dimes and quarters? If there's something in there making coins tone, I'd think it should be making them all tone. I would conclude that it's just coincidence. Natural toning. How long a time period are we talking about? Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Valued Member
Singapore
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could you please post some pics?
thanks!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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interesting.
Was Jefferson in AA?
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Pillar of the Community
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could you please post some pics?
Coins already went to the bank Quote:
How long a time period are we talking about? Probably over the course of 2 years |
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Quote:Pardon my ignorance of US coins, but isn't the same cupronickel alloy used to make both nickels and the clad layer on dimes and quarters? Yes it is. 75% copper and 25% nickel. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Sounds like your nickels had one too many!
I suspect Jefferson was nipping on whatever was left in the bottle.  In reality if you didn't do a great job of washing the bottle there may have been some residue left. Not necessarily from the Alcolhol, but from other ingrediants in the original contents. I presume this is a glass, not plastic, bottle though. Although even glass is not completely without some emissions of substances. Note the glass was probably tinted so even that tinting material may have had a hand in your toning. Possibly even the coins next to those may have had some contaminates on them. Just to many variables that could have caused the toning. Anyone spit into the bottle?  |
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Anyone spit into the bottle? Does spit effect toning?  This has been awhile so I don't remember exactly what I used to clean the bottle. What I found interesting was that only the nickels were effected. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Does spit effect toning?
Depends on how much and what was recently eaten. Now if you eat at a place called White Castle, eat about 10 of their hamburgers, run to McDonalds for the fries, then spit on a coin, you may never see that coin again.  Actually spit contains numerous different substances. Some can create toning and some can be used for cleaning. Some spit is very acidic and some really smells bad too. |
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Some spit is very acidic and some really smells bad too Yeh chewing tobacco spit is the worst, that really disgusts me.  |
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Valued Member
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^ ok, we'd better stop on the spitting now... I think everybody gets it :)
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Posted 11/22/2008 12:52 am
