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Valued Member
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Not sure if the toning is real or not.   Edited by MikeThePenny
08/18/2009 4:28 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Looks like it was dipped in jewelry cleaner.
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Pillar of the Community
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I would think the jevewlry cleaner would make it all white-silver colored and not so black.
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Pillar of the Community
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FYI: This Morgan appears to be an 1889 (Not 1881 per the Post Title...)
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Valued Member
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 Yeah it is a 1889 sorry... Me so duh at times |
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Jewelry cleaner? Why would that turn it a dark color? Well I don't know, it's just like I got it yrs ago. My mom had it when she worked at a store. A kid was buying a coke with it. lolol
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To let everyone know I don't clean my coins, dip my coins or anything like that. I leave them just like they are. I got some of that coin junk a yr ago just to see what it does to a coin and it made it smell funky and very little change to the coin. I am not saying anything bad about anyone that clean or dip their coins. I'm just saying I don't. Swear on my penny collection.... lolol
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Pillar of the Community
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There are two kinds of jewlery cleaner most folks have. One for gold, and one for silver
Dip a silver coin in one and you get the white super shiny. Dip it in the gold cleaner and it turns black in 6 seconds flat.
Use some common or culls and try it sometime. Amazing how quick it does it.
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Valued Member
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I don't dip so I don't know.
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Pillar of the Community
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RBF- That would explain the black morgans I have seen...
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This one's been treated in some fashion to attempt to hide a harsh cleaning. You can see the lines on the obverse pic, in the field in front of the neck. Chances are it was smoked, as the particulate matter in smoke fills hairlines, and whatever compound was used to create the smoke caused the toning, either immediately or in an accelerated fashion.
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Valued Member
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Hmmm that good to know. Thanks
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Obviously, I'm not saying it happened on your watch, Mike. Chances are, whoever treated it smoked it with something that had a fairly high sulfur content. Sulfur is the agent which causes the most prominent toning in silver; when it's used during a smoking process, the toning is accelerated and the coin doesn't pass through the color stages associated with "natural" toning. Hence, a black coin with a somewhat-natural appearance.
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Hmmm wow glad to know this. Gonna look at my other coins.
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Bedrock of the Community
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I would agree with Superdave, the most obvious areas of hairlines are next to the neck on the lower left obv side and around IGWT on the reverse.
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Posted 08/18/2009 3:58 pm
