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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 772297, member: 16510&quot;]<b>Anything with sulfer in it will tone coins or,</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Anything with sulfer in it will tone coins, the other methods I have heard are, baking the coin in a potato, putting matches in the box or container, baking soda, on an oak board, old paper envelopes in the sun or attic, old coin boards or folders.&nbsp; Then also you can just put them in a frying pan and turn on the heat but be very fast about it, they turn quickly anywhere from blue to rose to silver, you can boil them and bake them.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Now before you&#039;all jump on me I say this with tongue in cheek and yes most of it is true but for all but one kind of toning (the brown envelope in the window seal), all of these can easily be noticed as being AT or ruined.&nbsp; Never attemped this with a coin worth more than face value and don&#039;t try to sell it or pass it off as genuine if you hasted the process by any of these methods.&nbsp; But for the widow seal, every dealer I know does this from time to time.&nbsp; Generaly it is reseverd for for that Morgan or Barber that is truly XF/AU but had a light cleaning long ago and just looks a little to shiny and does in fact benifit from being toned down a bit.&nbsp; Sometimes it works well, many times it does not but in this context the dealer doing this to a coin is really trying to &quot;undo&quot; someone elses bad judgement when they cleaned it or overdipped it.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Like all things numismatic there is right, wrong and many shades of grey and until you have looked at, sold, handled hundreds of thosands of coins you really don&#039;t know what you are doing so do the foot work, the home work and pay your dues first then worry about AT and cleaning after you should pretty much know better than to ever do it except on very rare occasions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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