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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;purple88, post: 1756769, member: 56032&quot;]<font size="3"><font face="georgia">The China Mint shipped the coin to a company named PAMP in Switzerland to be &quot;colored&quot;. So this has nothing to do with toning. PAMP then utlizes &quot;proprieritary techniques of colorization for prescision color application&quot;.</font></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="3"><font face="georgia">PAMP&#039;s website </font></font><a href="http://www.pamp.ch/services/customminting/production" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pamp.ch/services/customminting/production" rel="nofollow">http://www.pamp.ch/services/customminting/production</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="3"><font face="georgia">Note- Colorizing is part of the original design intention of my coin.</font></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="3"><font face="georgia">Doing research I have uncovered three different types, or techniques, of colorization:</font></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="3"><font face="georgia"><span style="color: #333333">(a) Coins in which the colorized design has been applied via a decal or sticker which is glued or fused to the coin;</span></font></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="3"><font face="georgia"><span style="color: #333333">(b) Coins which are painted with enamel or acrylic-based paints; and</span></font></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="3"><font face="georgia"><span style="color: #333333">(c) Coins which are a hybrid of the two, in which a polymer-based inked decal is fused to the coin using high heat, which results in a coin that looks both painted and stickered.</span></font></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="3"><font face="georgia"><span style="color: #333333">Since PAMP doesn&#039;t describe its process and m</span></font></font><font size="3"><font face="georgia"><span style="color: #333333">y Panda is in a capsule currently </span></font></font><font size="3"><font face="georgia"><span style="color: #333333">I do not know exactly what process was used.</span></font></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="3"><font face="georgia"><span style="color: #333333">And, yes, I want to remove the fingerprints not the paint/decal/whatever.</span></font></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="3"><font face="georgia"><span style="color: #333333">This &quot;colorizing&quot; of coins is gaining in popularity on a world level with many governments issuing silver and gold investment grade coinage that is &quot;colorized&quot;.&nbsp; Visit the Royal Canadian Mint site to see many, many examples.&nbsp; Link-&nbsp; </span></font></font><a href="http://www.mint.ca/store/buy/coloured_coins-cat200032" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mint.ca/store/buy/coloured_coins-cat200032" rel="nofollow">http://www.mint.ca/store/buy/coloured_coins-cat200032</a>&nbsp; <font size="3"><font face="georgia"><span style="color: #333333">The process seems to have been used on medals and commemoratives quite a bit as well.</span></font></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I have been researching this topic all day. My coin has numismatic value and I want to preserve it correctly. Even if preserving it correctly means not doing a damn thing. But I am flabbergasted that I can&#039;t find anything online about how to preserve or clean a &quot;colorized&quot; silver coin.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="3"><font face="georgia"><span style="color: #333333">Thanks for all the help guys I appreciate it.</span></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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