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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2799961, member: 71723&quot;]One degree at a time. Start with the (oh boy!) B.S. Yes, the Al.D. degree (Doctor of Alteration) does require more alacrity. You know how all the books suggest experimenting with low value coins to understand surface alteration? Well I bought the chemicals, and just pulled others out of the darkroom, and actually DID my own experiments and proved to my own satisfaction that toning silver coins to believable colors is trivially easy. And no, Wizard doesn&#039;t sell the stuff, but others, including formerly Eastman Kodak, certainly did. A British concern still does. In addition, some old Kodak literature lists formulas for still others.</p><p><br /></p><p>My self-education regarding bronze coins is a work still in progress. It&#039;s interesting, but subject to seemingly random color variations I don&#039;t yet understand. This much I do know - there is no such thing as a copper/bronze coin whose toning is fixed and stable. They are always changing all the time. &quot;You can&#039;t stop him; you can only hope to contain him.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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