Toned Ancients...

..that's exactly right Doug & @TIF ...Black will be the end result on the trip thru the rainbow..albeit a long journey

 

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I dont generally collect silver, but I do absolutely love an attractively toned coin. I suspect this thread could go a long ways, as so far it seems others also appreciate toning. Here are some of mine, will have to break into two messages to get below the data allowance:

 

Here's my favourite toned silver!

Valens (364-378 AD)
AR Siliqua
RIC IX 27e
Mint: Trier

 

...i actually have a few underweight silver denari, but i have no doubt they are authentic..a few coins are like that, for one reason or another

 

Some favorites of mine

 

Just to note that the Messana tet posted by @Ken Dorney is a Becker forgery. I am sure he knows, it is more for other collectors who might run into another copy of it.

 

Yep. I know. I've posted it a number of times before. I have one Becker and one Paduan in my collection, and love both of them.

 

I no longer have the coin pictured below but would like to post it because it had sensational toning .

 

Judaea Pontius Pilate 14-37 CE - Prutah TIBEPIOY KAICAPOC Lituus Hendin 1342



Judaea Pontius Pilate - Prutah Julia - IOYLIA KAICAPOC Julia Caesar - LIVIA wife of Augustus Hendin 1341

 

some toned coins , imperial ad republican.

 

some pretty , colorful aes grave.

 

Those are great, @octavius !

 

Charles II (1660-1685) milled Silver Threepence (1677)


Diameter: 17.58mm, Weight: 1.43gm

Obverse depiction: Laureate and draped bust facing right
Inscription: CAROLVS II DEI GRATIA
(Charles the second by the Grace of God)

Reverse depiction: Three centered interlocking C's crowned
Inscription: MAG BR FRA ET HIB REX 1677
(King of Great Britain, France and Ireland)

 

Toning, you say? Yes, yes indeed, we speak that here...

 

Toned early Trajan:


Trajan, AD 98-117.
Roman AR Denarius, 3.21 g, 17.8 mm, 6 h.
Rome, AD 98-99.
Obv: IMP CAES NERVA TRAIAN AVG GERM, laureate head right.
Rev: PONT MAX TR POT COS II, Pax standing left, holding branch and cornucopiae.
Refs: RIC 17; BMCRE 14-17; Cohen/RSC 292; Strack 13; Hill UCR 29; RCV 3152.

 

The toning looks even better in hand.

 

Beautiful toning @rooman9