Propagating Paper Toning

Hello! In this post I will be going over an experiment in which I attempt to propagate toning using the sulfur found in most paper products. First, you will need a few common household items, including toilet paper, tape, a piece of cardboard of your choice size, and some silver coins worth toning.

What I did is get a piece that will fit around the coin like this, then wrap it around.
Now, I just taped it to my board, and dated it, like so


Now I will place it in a window sill, and in 3 months, I will do an update post with the progress of the coins.

 

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I don't particularly care for someone showing others how to create artificial toning. Just my 2c worth! ~ Chris

 

Actually, I am showing an experiment in which I see what does, and doesn't work.

 

I will be interested in how yours turn out. I have had a 64 half in a paper flip on my kitchen window sill for about 6 months. I forgot all about it until last weekend. It.is.ugly.

 

You probably hated my "baked zincolns" then...

 

And, there are plenty of sheister (spelling?) sellers on SleazeBay that would be interested in your results. ~ Chris

 

I consider myself fortunate to have missed that thread.

You know, it really gets me how some people are quick to post links to scumbag sellers, but they think nothing of giving them the ideas how they can screw buyers. ~ Chris

 

I had a roll of 1963 Franklin proofs in a tube. It wasn't full, so the end was stuffed with some acidic newspaper from the late 1970s.

After 40 years, I opened the tube. The coin touching the paper had toned a completely DISGUSTING black, very much terminal. The other side was blast white.

 

When cashing in my spare change at my LCS, they got a giggle out of the colorful cents I had.

 

Did they buy them from you? ~ Chris

 

yup...$0.01 each

 

How is a wad of toilet paper any more or less "artificial" than a canvas sack or a coin album?

 

I think the distinction is to whether it was done deliberately or accidentally. That's why AT is so hard to define.

 

Maybe the term should be revised from Artificial Toning to Intentional Toning - IT

 

I think, perhaps, there are many here who did science experiments as kids. The world didn't stop turning then, it won't now.

 

Silver and gold have some amazing properties, but as far as I know they aren't capable of reading the mind of each person who handles them, and then reporting those thoughts to another person in the future.

Maybe it's my lifelong enthusiasm for science, but I have a real problem with classifying coins solely on the basis of the intent of what was done to them. Can't measure it, can't quantify it; it's no good.

 

And, how much do you think they will ask for them in their shop? Do you think they will sell them as AT? ~ Chris

 

Let me know when the Mint starts shipping coins in bags & rolls made of toilet paper. ~ Chris

 

Maybe CT should require an IQ Test before acceptance...….Integrity Quotient!
~ Chris

 

Considering I saw them putting them in bags to take to the bank, they won't charge anything for them, the same way they don't charge for putting customer's coins through their coin counter at no charge. Now, after they get to the bank and are disseminated to wherever they end up, I can not speak for their fate.