http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbgraham1234 Seller has an awful lot of bullseye toners. IMHO , Artificial toning...... John
Some of them look okay, but with so many, ya just have to doubt it. Who would do that to an 1878 CC $?
Just wondering, but don't coins with natural toning usually show different patterns/colors on the obverse and reverse? The coins referenced here are all identical in pattern and color on both sides. it seems that this would be an obvious indicator that they are artificial.
How the devil do you AT a coin? Expose it to a gas? Treat it with a liquid or powdered chemical? Put it between two slices of rye bread? I understand why someone would do... it but how?
Let me suggest you're never going to get that question answered, here...at least, not on some of the tried-and-true methods that don't take half-a-lifetime or thereabouts to show. Hey, I wish I knew some of these secrets-of-the-trade too!
I am anything but an expert, but in this case I suspect it was heat that caused these coins to tone as they have.
I certainly didn't expect step by step instructions, just a clue. Heat is something I didn't think of. Yeah, let me pop cameo libs into the oven at 450º, yeah, that's the ticket.
i heard putting oils ontop of the coins face and leaving it in the window for sunlight to work on it works but dunno not gonna try it cuz i dont like toning
This coin took seconds to tone with a liquid mixture. Sulphur is the main ingredient. I suspect the coins in the op were done the same way. http://i333.photobucket.com/albums/m376/impavg/DSCF2957.jpg http://i333.photobucket.com/albums/m376/impavg/DSCF2958.jpg
If any of you roll search, the zinc lincolns (1983 and later) can get real wild toning from circulation. I'm sure they were left on heat radiators, on the dash of cars, left for dead out in parking lots, etc. There you can get "free" "natural" toning!!!
Sulfur is usually the main ingredient from straight sulfur flour in a carrier fluid to sulfates in solutions like thiosulfates ( or so I hear). The toning that an old dealer told me was most difficult to detect was done by baking a silver coin in a potato. The combination of heat and minute amounts of sulfur in the potato gave a nice tone to the coin. To be honest, I listened to these stories, but have never baked a morgan in a "tater" Jim
There's many artificial ways to get the toning on those coins, and I suspect one of them was used. You see this all the time on the bay. The only question is do you or do you not want the AT.
opinion is AT My opinion is AT. Some of the half dollars are pretty but the double sided identical toning and toning patterns look artificial & I have to give the lot "AT". Very best regards, collect89
