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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Patriot Coin Ring, post: 2507742, member: 81618&quot;]Just an FYI since there are no real instructions on doing this on the bottle, fill a glass with only as much water as you need to submerge your coin so 1/2&quot; deep is plenty.&nbsp; Bring your water to a boil first and then add around 3-5 drops of liver of sulfar (that&#039;s all).&nbsp; I thought it looked so light in the glass it wouldn&#039;t do anything at first and was pouring it in wasting my patina.&nbsp; Just a few drops in hot water is all you need.&nbsp; Finally, you need to Anneal your coin or ring with a propane torch first before tossing it in the glass of Patina if you want it to stay on long term.&nbsp; If you don&#039;t, it&#039;ll rub off easily in just a few weeks like tarnish.&nbsp; It only needs to be &quot;pickled&quot; for about 2-10 minutes depending on how dark you want your background).&nbsp; There are other considerations like if you want to polish the coins outer stamping to a bright silver (mine were done as described above because the customer wanted an aged look), you&#039;ll need an acid bath of Sparex #2 (also on Amazon) to dip after annealing as it&#039;ll remove all burning from the coin after annealing it and this needs to also be don at 1-2 TBSP per Cup of boiling water and before oxidizing.&nbsp; This will allow a brilliant silver finish if you desire instead like the image below.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, after you pickle your coin in the patina, give it a final soaking in a glass of water with 3 TBSP of Baking Soda to stop the oxidation process otherwise even after polishing it will keep wanting to oxidize.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Lot&#039;s of tricks and tips to learn in coin ring making.&nbsp; I still learn new stuff every day&quot;.&nbsp; Have Fun!</p><p><br /></p><p>Just to give you an idea of various background colors from highly polished to blackened Patina, I&#039;ll include a few more coin images below for you.&nbsp; Hope this helps with your project bud.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1383.photobucket.com/albums/ah311/PatriotCoinRing/il_570xN.805073760_6u3u_zpscakasd4m.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://i1383.photobucket.com/albums/ah311/PatriotCoinRing/il_570xN.489233726_5q6m_zpsmkid4xuw.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://i1383.photobucket.com/albums/ah311/PatriotCoinRing/coin_zpssqjevm3l.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://i1383.photobucket.com/albums/ah311/PatriotCoinRing/643e2a069c5e7ad1f4a8c1ed98b45787_zpsqmwklwn5.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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