Is there a way to store silver coins to induce toning?

Is there a way to store silver coins to induce faster than normal toning with time?

 

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Supposedly, but you might not get the desired results. Ugly toning could occur too.
If you don't like your coins as they are, sell them and buy toned coins to your liking.
Don't ruin coins that another collector might like.

 

Yes, many ways.

 

conversely, can one assume if you store your coins in slabs or airtites that they are not going to tone (any further)?

 

No ,they can still tone depending on where they are stored & what things are in that environment.

 

Keep 'em in the oven @ 350.........

 

And, be sure to leave them in the slabs or airtites!

Chris

 

rubber bands! but don't do it.

 

how can they still tone if they aren't exposed to the local environment?

 

Come on!! You stole what I wanted to say

 

The only example of not being exposed is if the coin is embedded in a block of acrylic such as a paperweight. But that can never be completely removed without coin damage, so it doesn't seem a true option. Slabs and hard plastic holders minimize exposure, but eventually variations in air pressure will cause damage to the 'click' seal or sonic seal ( slabs) and will allow ventilation of environment air in and out of the slab. Yes, very very minimal, but over time measurable. Even hard plastics have a minute diffusion coefficient of gases. Most environments that coins would love, humans would dislike. If you see rust anywhere , move.

 

Ya forgot to tell him to put them in a watermelon first

 

Manila envelopes work, but I agree with @d.t.menace, don't risk ruining a good coin.

 

Ive tried a fun little experiment with nice results so far. I took an 80s clad proof set. Popped open the plastic slab and inserted a piece of coin world or CDN or whichever publication feels similar to newspaper on both sides, closed it back up and sat it in my windowsill. I live in eastern NC so we have fairly normal seasons with large temperature swings and humidity at times and ive been hoping that some toning will happen.

I dated it on a piece of tape that keeps it closed, and I check it about every couple of months or so.

Since October, Ive managed to pull a little blue off the edges and thats about it. I want to see how it fairs through the summer, but I doubt we will be seeing any rainbow tones or vibrant colors when all is said and done.

I win these things all the time at our coin club meeting and thought this was innocent enough to see what would happen.

I thought about setting up a couple different ones now to see the results. Two reactive materials that I would be interested in trying next would be tissue paper and matches from a match book. See if the sulfur in the 3 react differently with the coins.

Just bored and want to see what my local environment in much more extreme conditions will be doing to my coins.

 

Temperature, humidity and what's in the air are the major factors. The problem with trying to mess with this it that there is no way to know what is already on the surface of the coin from how they were stored in the past. Most collections have coins that came from many different sources and times. That's going to change the results of each coin. You might get lucky with some coins but most folks end up with ugly toning.

 

I have the perfect drawer in my home that is a toning machine!

 

Baked potato

 

Omelette.