I just had a thought about this coin

I've posted this before:



Now, oriniginally I thought it was plated with aluminum foil. When I did it, I wrapped this tightly in aluminum foil, and placed it under the heating rod in the oven, and let it cook while I cooked a pizza.

However, I just looked at it again, and thought: what about this:
http://www.cointalk.com/forum/t52821/

Is it possible the heat toned it silver color?

I thought of it again today because (I don't have a picture) but I was experimenting again, and I turned a silver dime gold... and it's certainly not plated.
Although I didn't wrap it in foil, just used foil to hold it in place.

I'll get pics of the gold dime soon.

What are your thoughts?


edit:
here's the dime

 

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Not sure I understand did you find the 1960 or make it? If you did not make it, what does the one you made look like? Besides I thought heating copper turned it blue.

 

I've experimented with heat treating, it does strange things to a copper cent. I have an 81 that turned silver and others that changed all kinds of colors.

 

I made the 1960.

What I wasn't sure of now, is if that silver color is toning or plating.

 

Cool creation - I would say plated now.

 

Thanks.
What was my original thought.

But what made me rethink it was this dime, which isn't plated, and Charmy's silver-toned cent...

 

How'd the pizza turn out?

 

The pizza got damaged.

 

I like pizza:eating:

 

Mercury was rubbed on this coin.... if you take Mercury and rub it on a copper coin it will turn silver. Try it you'll see. Paddy

 

I don't have access to mercury, nor would I want to handle it.

 

Yeah I guess not but this coin has been treated with mercury I bet on it. Paddy

 

You need to realize there are more ways than 1 that a cent can turn silver.

This coin was red before I put it in the oven.

 

I'll go stand in the corner......

 

If that coin has been AT, PCGS won't be giving it a grade. They might still slab it as "geniue"

 

Maybe it is my monitor or my eyes, but I don't see a silver toned penny in your picture.