Rainbow Toning on Silver

What's a good place to store silver to have it develop rainbow toning? And also, will it work different on proof and business strike coins?

 

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All Silver coins require special types of materials to tone and I'm the only person that has those. So my suggestion is to just send all your Silve Coins to me for toning. And don't worry. If I can't tone them, I'll just keep them anyway. :smile
Some people have done a large variety of methods to tone coins. I really suggest you just experiment yourself on numerous methods to see what happens. Although here are some that many have attempted:
1. Place the coins in an oven and heat for a few hours. Turning if possible. Temperatues and moistures vary so results many or may not be desirable.
2. Place the coins in the ground, about 2 to 4 inches below the top. The problem is dirt is different everywhere. Might and might not work. If a plant starts there, allow to grow fully. May have coins instead of leaves.
3. Spit on the coins and leave on an outdoor window sill. Nothing will happen if kids, birds, bums, homeless people see them.
4. Place under your arm pits and tape in place. May not work due to everyone has different persperation systems. The coin may or may not tone but many people will not accept it due to smell.
5. Dip coins in Vinegar, then cover with bacon bits, add lettuse, eat coin salad and the resulting coins removed in the hospital may have toned and on both sides.
6. Put coins in a basket, go to the Ocean, lower the basket into the water, leave for several years. If gone when you go back, lesson learned is fish now have your money.
7. Gun Blue solutions do create some unusual tones.
None of the above are sanctioned methods by most Numismatic organization.

 

haha

 

I'm not sure I like the tone of that last response......

 

He is absolutely correct. Natural toning is a roll of the dice.

If you are brave and a patient person you can try something along these lines.

Find a fairly new unfinished wooden box and store the coins in there for a period of a few years. You can see the change over time. Getting the colors and the pattern you prefer is pure luck, if it occurs at all.

Purchase Whitman press board coin books and "with gloves on" insert your coins and let them sit for years. Also inspect them from time to time and you'll find that some want to tone and some don't. I use this technique with my Ike and SBA, and also the Statehood quarters. I also cover them, in the books with heavy duty paper. It seems to facilitate the reaction. It has been a few years now and I have watched some of them begin with a dark haze that slowly turns colorful. Actually I noticed color specks start then that area gets more intense. I'm loving it. At some point I will remove them from their toning environment and store them in airtites, where they should continue to tone deeper.

Note: I use only BU coins. I haven't tried NT any circulated coins. I'm too into BU coins period. Once I have perfected my technique with modern coins I plan to NT some of my BU Early American silver coins.

Allowing the ambient temp to reach 100+ should facilitate the reaction process, but be careful of moisture, you want toning not corrosion to occur.

Good Luck and Keep on Collecting!!!

Allen

 

[quote=Just Carl;5. Dip coins in Vinegar, then cover with bacon bits, add lettuse, eat coin salad and the resulting coins removed in the hospital may have toned and on both sides.


LOL . I'm gonna have to try # 5 , but what do you do if they smell kinda funny .
Rusty:thumb:

 

A while back I bought some interesting silver maple leafs that were toned inside the sealed plastic from the mint. Is is possible for coins to tone inside sealed plastic?

 

Wait a second all bets are off , I didn't read the second half of #5 , thought I just had to glue them under my armpits for awhile ,
Rusty

 

Sure , none are absolutely airtight , and where there is air there are sulfides which with oxygen and silver form corrosion .
Rusty:thumb:

 

I rainbow toned this one, but it is a nickel so it's different. http://i722.photobucket.com/albums/ww227/sambot12/DSCF0103.jpg

 

It's in pretty bad shape so I didn't feel so bad about ATing it.

 

check out "toning on silver"

http://rg.ancients.info/guide/toning.html

 

From the grimace on her face .....it must have hurt !

Jim

 

Wood will definitely tone a coin. Over christmas I found a 1996 silver eagle in a poorly sealed plastic case in my kitchen cabinet. The cabinet was made of wood, and the silver eagle had some interesting toning right along the rim. Kinda blue on the front and yellow-brown on the back. It will take a while... but wood will definitely do it.

 

An old-type kraft envelope and albums like a Dansco and Wayte Ramond will tone coins in a rainbow fashion.

While for most people toning coins is a crapshoot, understand there are those out there that do it for a living.

 

I currently have some morgan dollars in wooden cigar boxes and an old matchbox. It's been about a year with no results yet. I have no idea what to expect, but plan to give it a few years if needed.

 

Make sure they are exposed to their environment. If they are in airtites... you may want to loosen them up.

 

They're just sitting in the boxes exposed to the interior environment. It has been suggested elsewhere to move the boxes to an area with more temperture and humidity variation, which I may do.