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How to tone Morgans

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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  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That's bag toned and probably didn't see the light of day until the 1960's.

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  • clarkbar04clarkbar04 Posts: 4,922 ✭✭✭✭✭

    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.

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  • coinbufcoinbuf Posts: 10,713 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Use a blowtorch.

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  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,208 ✭✭✭✭✭

    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.

  • AlanSkiAlanSki Posts: 1,777 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You need a canvas bag, sulfur, and the right temp/humidity for about 70-80 years.

  • AlanSkiAlanSki Posts: 1,777 ✭✭✭✭✭

    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.

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