cameo effect from careful and selective dip?

moursund

Ok, if you took a darkish toned coin, and managed to dip just the raised part of the design, and not the fields, would it look cameo? Would this be possible?

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Dog97

It would look cam but you could tell where the dip ended and the tone started. Making it merge is the trick.

coinguy1

moursund - It would depend upon whether the devices were frosted or not. If they were, the coin (after the dipping procedure you described) would appear to be a cameo, though probably, odd looking!. If the devices were not frosted, you couldn't replicate the cameo effect, merely by dipping part of the coin.

dorkkarl

i doubt it would be very convincing. have you ever seen some of those bogus proofs where someone smears bondo on the devices of a polished coin? i saw a couple of morgans were convincing at first sight.

K S