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lurked long enough - toning is just plain old dirt

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  • coinguy1coinguy1 Posts: 13,484 ✭✭✭
    Wayne,

    Very well put!
  • zennyzenny Posts: 1,547 ✭✭
    I did not study the same chemistry courses that Wayne did, nor have i refinished many guns, but all that sounds very plausible. For my unscientific way of thinking i offer the following...

    I am going to the video store today to rent the movie "The Jerk" (no irony intended, of course, with respect to the title of this thread, the author of this thread or the thread itself), i haven't seen the movie in many many years but i seem to remember that Steve Martin refers to a part of his anatomy as his "special purpose" during the course of the movie.

    May i humbly suggest that dirty coins are covered with "just plain old dirt" and spectacularly toned, beautiful, ultra-desirable (for some) wonder coins are covered with "special dirt."

    i'm just a simple man....

    z


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  • Wayne beat me to the punch.

    As a chemist and soil scientist... my two cents:

    Toning: surface corrosion, oxidation or sulfidation of the matrix metal.

    Corrosion: oxidation or sulfidation of the matrix metal to a point where damage is done to the design.

    Dirt: soil out of palce (also any foreign substance).
    "Don't talk like an ignarosis."

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  • NysotoNysoto Posts: 3,818 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Call it what you want, toning is kool, even to my color blind eyes!
    Robert Scot: Engraving Liberty - biography of US Mint's first chief engraver
  • OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wayne...ya dun good! Gun bluing = controlled corrosion/oxidation. By oxidizing the surface you prevent further damage.

    Cheers,

    Bob
  • dorkkarldorkkarl Posts: 12,691 ✭✭✭
    so......, toning that brings a humoungous premium would be called pay-dirt, right?

    K S
  • OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭
    UUUUUGGGGHHHH!!!
  • Good one Dork!
    You can fool man but you can't fool God! He knows why you do what you do!

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