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<p>[QUOTE="Circus, post: 1734146, member: 51195"]All you will do with the above acidic's is clean the copper, what you what is a patina solution that is used to age copper, now you can use urine, like they did in Roman and Greek studio's. There are thousands of formula's and procedures. Toning is a "patina" on a coin, I have to agree with what has been said in some of the other posts. That the people that are doing it, to get people to pay a premium for a regular coin. I am not a fan of toning as a way to generate extra cash!</p><p><br /></p><p>But to each his or her own. If you like God bless you, if you don't God bless them too.</p><p>The problem you will have attempting this with zinc plated coins is the traditional heat patina, will not react the same on a plated coin as a sheet of pure copper.</p><p>It is an art to flame paint on copper metal decorative objects. You can google flame painting on copper, heat patina on copper[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Circus, post: 1734146, member: 51195"]All you will do with the above acidic's is clean the copper, what you what is a patina solution that is used to age copper, now you can use urine, like they did in Roman and Greek studio's. There are thousands of formula's and procedures. Toning is a "patina" on a coin, I have to agree with what has been said in some of the other posts. That the people that are doing it, to get people to pay a premium for a regular coin. I am not a fan of toning as a way to generate extra cash! But to each his or her own. If you like God bless you, if you don't God bless them too. The problem you will have attempting this with zinc plated coins is the traditional heat patina, will not react the same on a plated coin as a sheet of pure copper. It is an art to flame paint on copper metal decorative objects. You can google flame painting on copper, heat patina on copper[/QUOTE]
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