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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 8145266, member: 19463&quot;]I have seen a few coins that have silver over surface encrustations.&nbsp; It is very simple to put silver over copper.&nbsp; Fifty years ago bored photo lab workers threw pennies into well used photo fixer because we though it was cute to see them turn silver.&nbsp; Beginner photo technicians were warned always to run your hands through the fixer after that hand was in the developer to prevent black silver stains on that hand.&nbsp; The ancients did not do photo lab work but I have to wonder if there were mint workers with black hands.&nbsp; Metallic silver naturally turns black with exposure to salt in the skin.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure the ancients had ways of plating but I do not know which they had discovered. </p><p><br /></p><p>Can this be done so it &#039;passes&#039; as original?&nbsp; People who want to be fooled are easier to fool than those who do not.&nbsp; </p><p><a href="https://abrahamlincolnassociation.org/you-can-fool-all-of-the-people-lincoln-never-said-that/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://abrahamlincolnassociation.org/you-can-fool-all-of-the-people-lincoln-never-said-that/" rel="nofollow">https://abrahamlincolnassociation.org/you-can-fool-all-of-the-people-lincoln-never-said-that/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>For the record:&nbsp; I have not seen any studies that prove one way or the other exactly how the silver wash was applied to late Roman coins and particularly nothing to suggest that all mints and all time periods did it the same way.&nbsp; What have I missed?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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