I bought some world coins that didn't cost me too much and a couple of the coins in a small coin bag had really nice toning going on. I think it is the mixture of the coins and the paper that is inside the bag. I took and placed a 1944 Washington quarter, a newer unc dime and a US penny in there with the remaining world coins. My hope is that in awhile, I will get some nicely toned coins. I like toned coins so I'm wondering, do I leave the bag tightly sealed with the zip lock locked or do I leave it open? much appreciation
Now that the coins are in a different environment than what they got toned in to begin with, how would you replicate that toning environment? I'm talking about the environment that the bag was in, not the bag itself. Hopefully the bag was the catalyst and it will tone the new coins you put in there. If it wasn't the bag but rather the environment surrounding it, you may not get the results that you're looking for. I hope they didn't tone because someone smoked 4 packs a day in their 'environment'. Certainly wouldn't try that experiment! lol
Yes I am hoping that the bag itself, the coins in it and the paper will do the trick. I only removed one coin from the bag and I'll attach that one. There is still another copper coin in the bag toning and I am hoping it will somehow do the trick. I'm thinking a 50% chance that it will work. Also I'm thinking I increased that percentage by leaving the toning coin in the bag. Funny about the smokes!!
The humidity definitely plays a part. But there is so much that goes into how a coin tones or doesn't tone, that you'll never be able to dupicate the previous conditions. So as stated - you may not like what you end up with, or you may. It's a crap shoot.
I know I can put a gem bu coin out in my garage and tone it in a week or so. but the humidity here in Alabama changes so much is the rezone for that. but if you want to tone a slabbed coin like a Anacs or Pcgs, just keep putting it in you freezer for a day. then take it out but you have to do if for a while and it will tone, but it take time to do that.plus you never know what it will look like
This is more true than people realize. Not only differences in humidity, but numerous other gasses in the air also that vary pending the invironment. One of my favorite tricks to tone down cleaned coins is to place them on a kitchen window sill. However, as I've told many people that that too varies massively pending on even more things than a normal situation. How much cooking is done, what is cooked, the temperature, the humidity and on and on and on. Coins tone if left on a picnic table in some areas and hardly nothing happens in other areas. Even the location you live in places a part in how coins tone.
My favorite toning place is putting coins in a cigar box and put it on a shelf in the garage over the summer and cents seem to tone real good for me on top of my hot water heater. I get some toning from the window sill and the fireplace mantle but it's not very pretty.
