How to Tone Coins

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I would *dearly* love to see video of this.

 

That would be a big Negative!

Im thinking youre not alone in this

 

You mean Io, the moon that's entirely covered in sulfur?

 

Just looked into this thread again.

I just opened my desk, pulled out a ziplock bag I dump my change in at work and took a look.

The oldest mint red original Lincoln's in the bag are: (1) 1986; (2) 1995; and RATS! (1) 1970-D that is almost totally red. The coins are all at least MS-64+

Now, I have a sealed box at home and several plastic jugs (saving to look for 69-S DDO so I can get a new Porsche) all airtight. I'll guarantee there are some Red cents from the 60's.

Further Proof: Go to your local coin show and look inside some of those blue Whitman folders for sale that no one wants. You'll find red Lincolns. I often buy them if there is a degree of color I don't have in the Red Unc to corroded black "color set" I've been working on for years. Fun & cheap hobby.

No nit picks about this...there is air in the bag, it gets opened almost every day, and I don't even try to purge it.

Now I got to dump this stuff back and get to work.

 

And not to worry about the sparks flying all over the place?

 

Correct! this is just part of the process

 

Please don't do this.

 

I shudder at the thought.........

 

Try a grape instead!

 

I suspect that would tone your microwave a lot faster than it would tone the coin.

Yeah, and with a mean surface temperature of -160 C or so, I don't think even pure copper would tone very fast there.

 

I prefer hamsters. KIDDING!!!!

 

Frog in a blender is fun too...

 

...In your personal microwave. Do it in someone else's for us.

 

You forgot to add the coin w/the grape

 

This thread makes me feel like finding out about a party that happened a week earlier.

 

Imagine a hamster munching on that grape. Caramba!

 

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