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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ken Dorney, post: 2422212, member: 76086&quot;]Yea, but I am in northern California.&nbsp; We actually get rain!&nbsp; And every 10 years, snow!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, I can only assume it will end up brown.&nbsp; I am not doing anything else to it, so there will be no greens, reds, etc (well, there are patches of original reds on the reverse, so they will remain).</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Sunlight only tones silver.&nbsp; But with base metals it can darken what is already there.&nbsp; Since I dont know how it was cleaned or what was used to clean it (I assume chemical) there will be some reaction to whatever remains on the surface of the coin.&nbsp; Sunlight, rain, leaves that fall on it over the winter, all will have an effect.&nbsp; It is just an experiment, and hopefully it will have a good outcome.&nbsp; I thought about buying it in the ground.&nbsp; That would also be a good experiment.&nbsp; I once had a really nice intact Roman brass fibula that someone cleaned harshly (like this coin) and it was really bright.&nbsp; I decided to bury it and see what happens.&nbsp; Unfortunately I forgot where I buried it and it is now lost!&nbsp; Maybe in a thousand years someone will dig it up and decide that Romans colonized Northern California![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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