How to tone Morgans
CalifornianKing
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How would I tone a morgan "naturally" to make it looks attractive or like this https://www.greatcollections.com/Coin/881739/1881-S-Morgan-Silver-Dollar-PCGS-MS-67-CAC-Toned
Would throwing it into a witman holder for a few years work?
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That's bag toned and probably didn't see the light of day until the 1960's.
Finding the recipe to make pieces like that would be like finding the golden goose, and in many ways it would be better considering what a goose would also do to your lawn.
Make some canvas bags exactly like they did in the 1870s-1880s, (probably chock full of harmful chemicals and sulfur) and store white silver dollars in it for an extended period of time.
I think at some point the bags fully outgassed or they would just have continued to tone into an ugly black terminal state.
Use a blowtorch.
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No, I have lots of coins in Whitmans and not one looks like that. They are junk silver, but since I was a kid they haven’t toned that way, not even one, and that’s been more than a few years.
You need a canvas bag, sulfur, and the right temp/humidity for about 70-80 years.
Btw... I think you can get better toning In a dansco vs a whitman.
Again it's all about temp/humidy and surface of the coin.