A Kraft coin envelope and a Barber quarter.

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relicsncoins
relicsncoins Posts: 8,302 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited January 11, 2022 8:34PM in U.S. Coin Forum

Several years ago I added this Barber quarter to my photo cert collection. It was polished pretty good and stark white and shiny. I put the thing in one of those old yellow Kraft coin envelopes in a sunny window hoping it would mellow out a bit. Well I forgot about it and hear it is 4 years later. I think I will just leave it in there, Hopefully after 10 years it won't look so cartoonish.

Need a Barber Half with ANACS photo certificate. If you have one for sale please PM me. Current Ebay auctions

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  • DollarAfterDollar
    DollarAfterDollar Posts: 3,217 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Yup, overbaked that one.

    If you do what you always did, you get what you always got.
  • johnny9434
    johnny9434 Posts: 34,111 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Extra crispy coin

  • SeattleSlammer
    SeattleSlammer Posts: 10,125 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    That’s pretty amazing it toned to that degree. That must be really an out-of-the-way window for you to forget about it ….. was there substantial humidity in the mix, too?

  • relicsncoins
    relicsncoins Posts: 8,302 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @SeattleSlammer said:
    That’s pretty amazing it toned to that degree. That must be really an out-of-the-way window for you to forget about it ….. was there substantial humidity in the mix, too?

    It's in my daughters old bedroom. She moved out 5 years ago. It was in a window behind a house plant on a shelf.

    Need a Barber Half with ANACS photo certificate. If you have one for sale please PM me. Current Ebay auctions
  • HoledandCreative
    HoledandCreative Posts: 2,890 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I forgot about an Isabella quarter on a window sill for a few years. No envelope, just the coin. Not a pretty sight like yours.

  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    In ten more years, if left in the same environment... it will likely be terminal black.... Cheers, RickO

  • Namvet69
    Namvet69 Posts: 9,424 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Talk about your 3rd degree burn. Ouch! Peace Roy

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  • WAYNEAS
    WAYNEAS Posts: 7,271 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Bacon crisp.
    Wayne

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  • The_Dinosaur_Man
    The_Dinosaur_Man Posts: 1,594 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    If only you could taste the rainbow now. Reminds me of the dime I let sit by a window.

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  • Aercus
    Aercus Posts: 383 ✭✭✭✭
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    @relicsncoins said:
    I think I will just leave it in there, Hopefully after 10 years it won't look so cartoonish.

    As others have mentioned, it won't get better :(

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  • Crackout
    Crackout Posts: 1,375 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Flash back to 1986. Time to dip it again so it looks like the photo cert!

  • PerryHall
    PerryHall Posts: 47,760 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Dipping a coin with really dark toning frequently leaves a dull lifeless surface since the dark toning has already eaten into the surface. Leave it alone and sell it if you don't like it.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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  • Swampboy
    Swampboy Posts: 13,264 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Send me all your old craft envelopes
    Please :D

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  • relicsncoins
    relicsncoins Posts: 8,302 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I would love to replace it, but finding another Barber quarter with an ANACS photo cert for my unique type set is difficult. I've been looking for a Barber half for 16 years. I bid on one, but a shady auctioneer sold it to the underbidder.

    Need a Barber Half with ANACS photo certificate. If you have one for sale please PM me. Current Ebay auctions
  • PerryHall
    PerryHall Posts: 47,760 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Swampboy said:
    Send me all your old craft envelopes
    Please :D

    I've read in a few places that Taco Bell napkins also work for toning coins. It's the sulfur in the paper that causes it to tone but it takes a lot of patience to wait for it to happen since it's a very slow process. It helps to put it in a warm and humid location.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

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