Toning Coins

Hello fellow coin peeps!

I was just wondering about toned coins. How do you tone a coin on purpose, and make it look like it is natural? How do coins tone naturally?

Thanks!

 

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Why not post a tutorial for us in the FAQ section unfortunately this is one thing about coins i dont know

 

Spock admits to not knowing something about coins?

We will have to make today's date a CT Holiday from hence forth.

Ribbit

 

i have read those but what i want to see is special instructions from you on how to tone coins

 

spock admits to not being a crook. where is the hot water people are waiting for toad soup

 

There's 2 ways to go about this , 1. outrite fraudulant ie using chemicals or heat ,
2. helping mother nature . Since toning is caused by
the sulfides in the air interacting with the silver
on the coins surface . You could speed this up by
intentionaly putting a coin in a high sulfer place
by wrapping it up in a piece of tissue paper . The
problem is you have no way to know how it will
tone .
rzage

 

But what about the paper towel & windex method, then sticking it on the dashboard for a week?

Ribbit

 

Ahhhh! So you are trying to figure out how to distinguish between AT and NT, so you don't get ripped off? Yeah . . . that's the ticket! :whistle:

Ribbit

 

The easiest way is to put the coin in the seat of a sofa, then take the sofa outside and set it on fire. This will tone the coin black which exactly mimics the color coins naturally tone when they have been in a building fire.

All kidding aside, you are asking a taboo question. Intentionally toning a coin permanently alters the surface of it and if it is not very expertly done it is fairly easy to detect that the coin is altered as long as one is a competent numismatist.

If you like toned coins just buy them already toned or find a skilled doctor to apprentice under. The latter is the way most doctors begin, but it is fairly difficult to find one willing to take an apprentice because each develops their own process to one degree or another and their biggest risk factor is that they will over-saturate the market with their product and the services will begin to recognize their specific look and start bagging everything they do. That would shut them down, so they really have no desire to proliferate their methods to new doctors.

 

From all the thread on AT & NT I can tell the difference on some , but others are hard , is there a good book on the subject of toning & altered surfaces , I can't afford to go to Colorado for the ANA coarses .
rzage

 

Wow just noticed I went over 1000 posts , don't I win a prize !
rzage

 

i already know that i am trying to figure out to tone my 3 junk Morgans to green blue and red

 

yes you get send spock a nice gold coin in gem bu congrats

 

Only if you send me your 2 Anna gold coin 1st .:hail:rzage

 

Good

 

I have a big sulfur rock? Should I place the coin on a window sill with the sulfur rock on top of the coin?

 

The problem with putting a coin near or in something with sulfer in it , 9 times out of ten you end up with black splotchy toning .
rzage