This one sat in a window sill for 2 years.

@SensibleSal66 your always welcome

 

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An entire thread about toned coins and not a single picture of a toned coin has been shown. Fascinating.

 

Where are all these window sills? Asking for a friend...

 

I actually wrap the skinned coin in a newspaper and leave to bake. Takes a couple years but it does help

 

Can anyone see where this is headed? It'll soon be like a certain category of crime, where what's (supposedly) in the criminal's mind at the time of commission makes all the difference.

TPGs will be phoning you up and asking, "Say, do you happen to remember what you were thinking when you put that coin in an envelope on the windowsill?"

Or they'll just refer the matter to the local D.A.

 

So, a coin in a window sill always tones? If this is the case please show us some photos.

 

Coins anywhere always tone. Especially silver and copper. Yes, I know you know this. If you don't want your coin to tone, buy gold.

But does it not strike anyone as passing strange that so many 130 year old Morgans are still "blast white" (and certified with straight grades) despite over a century of exposure?

It would be different if they'd been kept in a hyperbaric chamber with Michael Jackson, you know. And just look what happened to him. SMDH.

 

Attention forum spergs: yes I know it would actually be a vacuum, or perhaps nitrogen. Not a hyperbaric chamber. But I'm trying to tell a story here.

 

LOL, Glad I was done with my coffee.

Personally I would rather have a toned coin, not an obvious over cooked coin but one with a natural look.
Also depending on your location and climate, Coins in my climate do not change very quick. I still have coins that I bought years 10 or more ago in paper flips that haven't changed in the slightest.

 

Here are 2 coins from two different Silver proof sets.
Both sets show near the same type of toning, One set was left to extreme heat not long and not on purpose. And the other as far as I know has been kept full time in good collecting environment.
The 06 Colorado.


The Nevada


Here is a 2000 Set.
Which one was exposed to the heat, I believe there is a tell.
Lets see if anyone can pick it out.
Maryland


Virginia

 

Would you believe, I've never seen either the Colorado or the Nevada? Probably because I'm in the Mid-Atlantic and those are minted way out west.* They are both very cool designs IMHO.

One of the Virginia sails is toned, right? But the Maryland obverse is frostier.

 

* nyuk nyuk nyuk

 

That isn't frost from the strike just toning around the perimeter.
Yeah all the coins whether fully visible or not have a light golden tones to the frosty devices.

 

Yeah, this thread is old, but I forgot about it.
While I try to hunt down the Kennedy half. I fear it may have fallen between the wall frame and the basement concrete.
I have two others that have been sitting in the window for just as long.
One a bicentennial Ike in Silver.
And an 88 P Morgan that had slight peripheral toning when I got it. Actually, I bought a whole BU roll when Silver was low.

A tale of two different coins.
Here is the Bicentennial Ike.
It has a very light tone to it,


I will get some photos of the Morgan and post them a little later today.
We are snowed in.
What was supposed to be a 1–6-inch storm has already dropped a good 8-10.

 

What two feet of snow really looks like!

 

Did someone mention bacon?

 

I've posted this before but it's my 1997 botanical gardens dollar, still in the OGP, that has a tear in the plastic film encapsulating it. Over the past 25 years, it's been developing a subtle golden patina on the reverse. The accompanying nickel, which is the more desirable coin, is still pristine, as its packaging is intact.

 

Too bad about the snow.
We froze for four days and it’s in the 50s now.
I’ll try to remember to post pics of the toned filets when I pull them from the grill.

 

Ah yes the 97P SMS It is a satin nickel that came in the set.
I have the prestige set with the Botanical Gardens dollar. Mine also has a little hue around the perimeter. But the nickel is the proof .