I am just 13 years old lol. I got into collecting when my grandpa found his old collection. I am just doing it on junk silver, and u can e-mail it to me so no one else see's.
I pass out a few hours after anyone I’m around eats taco hell What’s in that mystery meat I don’t wanna know. Now good authentic street tacos. I’m game anytime anywhere. Best i ever had were in San Antonio
On a serious note. I have used the windowsill trick in a Manila envelope or a newspaper best advice is fold the coin up in it. Flip every 6 months and forget about for a couple years or more. But the best thing i ever found if you know someone with bad sulfur water. My ex’s house in Massachusetts. Was her parents second home. And wasn’t used for months at a time. Sulfur water etc. she complained about it tarnishing her silver jewelry. Especially when we first got there. I had some fun putting cleaned or damaged surface coins in the sink or shower and running hot water on them I’d literally have coins in the shower with. And it did some amazing stuff. No rainbow toning But it gave a head start for some cleaned circulated early stuff. A couple years in the windowsill and damn. The results are great
I've played around with cents more than silver. Heat does some interesting things. You could try sealing some silver in a jar along with some boiled egg yellows.
It depends on the coin, the cabinet and the environment. Environment being the biggest part of the equation. Some folks never have a problem with using cabinets. But, I could see having a coin stay stable in a cabinet for years. Then it gets sold and goes to town in a new environment.
One of the oddest experiences I ever had was when an old friend in financial distress came to me with a small tin of slabbed coins. He wanted X amount of money and insisted I hold the coins. Two years later while cleaning my office I found the tin. Mike is a white coin guy but he had put a business card with a valuation for the coins written on the back. Every single coin had a strong halo of red/blue toning. Really makes you wonder what they make business cards out of. james
Just go to your mom's laundry room and put a little Clorox on a rag, then pat it on a silver coin. You'll quickly get blues and purples that any experienced coin guy will call AT, but it can be a learning experience.
There are many different ways to "Tone" a coin but as mentioned other then natural toning which is near impossible to duplicate devalues the coins. On the other hand I love the idea as a science project, just be careful as many of the chemicals involved can be nasty... Sulfur gas has some very interesting effects on silver. I have been picking up some real bad examples over the years.. here are a couple of the worst i've found including my newest just obtained yesterday... all are from some form of sulfur exposure...
If you are in a high school or college , the teacher might let you do the experiment below. When teaching college chemistry-1. I did the experiment below to show the effect to give cents the color of silver and gold. After they did it and reported it, I let them keep their cents/
