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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4514147, member: 110350&quot;]Thanks.&nbsp; The blue toning on my coin -- which everyone agreed was artificial when I first posted a photo of it here, given the particular dealer&#039;s known penchant for applying artificial toning, and the number of coins he had for sale with a virtually identical blue tone -- was very blue in appearance regardless of the light conditions or the angle at which I viewed it.&nbsp; It sounds like the dealer didn&#039;t have to do very much to achieve the effect, whether he used liver of sulfur or something else, and that the layer of blue coloring was very thin however he achieved it.&nbsp; So it makes sense that it would be fairly easy to remove.&nbsp; What I still don&#039;t get is how it mostly disappeared all by itself!&nbsp; I checked the coin again this morning just to make sure I hadn&#039;t imagined the whole thing.&nbsp; And it still looks fine.</p><p><br /></p><p>It seems that nobody can explain how the blue toning could have gone away by itself.&nbsp; (I posted the same question in the Facebook group last night, and the last time I checked, nobody had even tried to answer it.)&nbsp; Disappearing ink? (See <a href="http://www.chymist.com/Disappearing%20Ink.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.chymist.com/Disappearing%20Ink.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.chymist.com/Disappearing Ink.pdf</a>.) But that apparently takes only minutes to fade. Not months.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obviously, it was a miracle.&nbsp; The spirit of Hadrian decided to come back after 1,900 years and change the coin because he didn&#039;t like being blue?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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