I'm not implying anything, or advancing that i will do this, i'm just curious. What would happen if you took a Clad UC PF, and hit it a couple times with a butane torch. Im more interested in what would happen to the fields.
I have tried "torching" coins before to simulate toning. Never had any good results. Waste of time and gas.
Who doesn't use a torch to their coins. It's much easier to kill the germs with a torch than cleaning them with boiling water or by other means. :yes:
Why? Simple. Folks are always saying that this or that coin with beautiful toning was "torched". Having "torched" some Kennedy Half's myself out of curiosity, I can say with absolute certainty that "torching" a CnClad coin does nothing more than turn it light green to violet. Its not attractive at all. To think that folks read about some of these Artificial Toning methods and then do not "experiment" is a bit naive, I do not consider myself exceptional but am a typically curious sort that enjoys learning with a hands on approach and rarely likes to take someone's word for it. I need to see it for myself. This particular experiment was quite revealing in that I tried several different ways. Long Exposure. Short Exposure, Direct long, direct short. Proximity Long, Proximity Short. Nothing produced anything that would even come close to an artificially toned coin. All just turned a solid light green to deep violet over the entire coin. It was educational enough for me to dismiss most "it was torched" comments regarding some toned coins.
There's an error dealer out here that took that train track thing to a different level in that instead of a single coin, he placed two coins together with different degrees of overlap. I thought they looked pretty cool.
Heating a coin can be done in more than one way. Being heated directly in a flame makes it hard to control the exact temperature and it is exposed to the unreacted fuel in the flame. There is an experiment in chemistry that many have referenced here, "The Gold Penny" where a penny (ehem...cent coin) is given a thin coating of zinc and then heated to make a thin coating of brass. Done correctly this is spectacular (if anyone has some good examples, post them). It is hard to control the heating phase however if you use a bunsen burner or other type of flame. An alternative is to place the cent on a hotplate and remove it when the color change occurs. This would be interesting to experiment with.
Here is my person opinion (only my opinion) If someone starts multiple threads asking about AT coins or cleaning coins I start to question what their motives are. From that point forward I give less credit to their opinions on all coin topics. If someone admits in multiple threads to attempting to AT and Clean coins I know what their motives are. Their opinions on all things coin are now worthless to me. Just my opinion.
Many moons ago, when I was still a young geezer, I torched a 40% Kennedy half. It melted. That was my last experiment with propane and propane accessories.
