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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2979122, member: 74282&quot;]I <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/i-really-took-this-coin-to-the-cleaners.287281/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/i-really-took-this-coin-to-the-cleaners.287281/">first posted</a> my staff series victoriatus in December 2016. I had purchased it uncleaned and it had just returned from a 4 month trip to a professional cleaner and was basically blast white. Since then it&#039;s largely been sitting in one of my archival paper envelopes in a safe deposit box at the bank and in that time has started to tone appreciably. I recently retrieved it to use as part of a &quot;show and tell&quot; with other collectors while at NYINC and decided to take a few pictures of its progress while it was out.</p><p><br /></p><p>While I&#039;ve tried placing other coins in the windowsill or leaving them in a humid guest bathroom to tone them, this one has done nothing but sit in that box and has toned down better than any of the ones I tried to kickstart toning on. I don&#039;t know if this should be attributed to the particular alloy used in this coin or the cleaning method my cleaner used or some other variable, but I am excited to see what a few more years will do to it.</p><p><br /></p><p>December 2016:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]732646[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>January 2018:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]732647[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>If you&#039;ve got any before-and-after pictures of toning I&#039;d love to see them![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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