One have my coin collecting buddy's did a trade with me....I traded two coins for 3....and one of them he said he "Suttonized" it. Sutton's formula is a sulfur paste that will turn it a more even brown and retone the brighter exposed areas. Does that hurt the coin in anyway? stainless
Gees Anthony, I don't know. If you listen to most of the advice on this forum they tell you that most kinds of cleaning takes away some of the metal. I'm sure you'll get a knowledgeable answered shortly.
I never heard of it before, but it sounds like it ruins the coin unless the coin was in bad shape to begin with.
If its an ancient, then no. Sulfur paste is a reasonably common repatination technique that actually improves the coin in the eyes of many ancient collectors. If its modern, well. We'd have to see it, wouldn't we?
Man, I hope it doesn't screw it up....I really wanted this coin too.. thanks for the help so far guys stainless
Stainless, is Sutton's formula the actual name of the product? I tried Googling it, but came up empty...
Its not cleaning but a sulfur solution, I am not a fan of artificial toning, even on ancients. I like to have toning but I dont want it that way...there are several different varieties (dellers is another common type) of this. I never felt the need to use it, if my coin is cleaned to the metal, I would rather just let it tone again in the natural way. But I am sure many of my coins have had this used on them. In the end they do nothing more than what you would get if you put your coin in a bowl of eggs
Sulfer powder in vasoline will do the same thing. Similar to Dellers Darkener. Or try a heavy duty dandruff shampoo.
Are you trying to make the surfaces of the coin more homogeneous (browner)? Are you talking about copper cents? I hope you're not doing this to a valuable or favorite coin as you said yourself you weren't too sure of the outcome. Try it on common coins first. Good luckhya: Bruce
last tie i tried to tone my old morgan that way it came out shiny bright needless to say i never tired it again
I don't know what it means, either. But when I worked the drive-up window at a major TPG we used to ask that all the time of our customers who dropped off their coins, "Ya wanna Suttonize that?"
