2005 BU ASE - AT Toning Experiment/Contest - (1st Month Pics - POST HERE)

2bucks

So you don't have to scroll all the way down to see the pictures, I will start a new thread each month when the pictures are due to be posted. I will always include my orginal post as you can see below.

BTW - ANYONE who is in the process of artificially toning a coin as an experiment and wants to post it, please do. You won't be a part of the contest, but it would be great to see the pics!


OK - Today ends the first month of the experiment/contest. Please post your pics sometime within the next 7 days. I am not one of the contestants, but decided to play along for the fun of it.

I started this coin on Sept. 1 and so far here are my results.












------- This is my original post on Aug. 22, 2005




<< <i>I want to have a contest. I will give 6 people on this board one 2005 GEM BU Silver Dollar. They will have 6 months to "tone" it as best they can. After the 6 months are up, the top three coins are kept by the people who toned them, and the other 3 coins are sent back to me. Again, I want to say that this is purely for fun, I have no intention of using any information for illegal purposes.

OKAY - These are six contestants!
speer34
GaCoinGuy
eyoung429
Capstick
CarlWohlforth
Relayer

Conditions:
1. You must be able to take pictures and post your ongoing results every month, both obv. and rev.
2. You must reveal the process you used, but only after the final vote.
3. Voting - This board will decide the winners.

GOOD LUCK!
Trey Hamil



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cosmicdebris

Method and instructions please.

relayer

I'm stuck in Dallas and won't be able to post a picture until next week

CarlWohlforth

Wow! Mine is going slower and may not be colorful.

dlimb2

ttt, inquiring minds want to know!

2bucks

ttt

notlogical

You're contest gave me and my dad the idea of doing a experiment too. We are using kennedy and franklin half dollars instead of silver eagles. We put one coin wrapped in old brown paper in a old envelop with stuff that has sulfur in it. Like iron pyrite, MSM tablets(it's like a vitamin tablet), aluminum sulfate powder (my dad uses it in our garden), matches, selenium tablets(it's like a vitamin too), epsom salts and dried onion flakes. We looked up on the internet for what had sulfur in it and that's why we are using what we are using. We closed the envelops with paper clips and put them in a real sunny window. We did that about a month ago.

We haven't looked at them yet.

2bucks

I'm posting these images for Capstick.

He says - "Nothing happened as of yet but don't count me out. "

eyoung429

I will get some better pics later but here is how it's going so far.

Capstick

<< <i>I'm posting these images for Capstick.

He says - "Nothing happened as of yet but don't count me out. "



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These are mine. Not sure why no color yet but in the end I will prevail.

Hobbyist

Question about the first coin posted. What causes the ugly, splotchy, almost brush stroke like, areas? Is that where the coin probably has contaminents such as oil, finger grease, etc on it so it is not toning as much?

Bochiman

<< <i>I will get some better pics later but here is how it's going so far.



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Match head?

2bucks

<< <i>Question about the first coin posted. What causes the ugly, splotchy, almost brush stroke like, areas? Is that where the coin probably has contaminents such as oil, finger grease, etc on it so it is not toning as much? >>




This is the first coin I've ever tried to tone. I should have given it an acetone bath first, but did not. I'm guessing it's my fingerprints. This is just an experiment, so I'm not concerned.

ChuckC

<< <i>

BTW - ANYONE who is in the process of artificially toning a coin as an experiment and wants to post it, please do. You won't be a part of the contest, but it would be great to see the pics! >>



Here I am!

I've been AT toning a SAE for 11 months now Here's a BEFORE and AFTER:

BEFORE



AFTER (11 months later)

Click here to see in between photo results



in between results

Hobbyist

<< <i>


This is the first coin I've ever tried to tone. I should have given it an acetone bath first, but did not. I'm guessing it's my fingerprints. This is just an experiment, so I'm not concerned. >>



Thanks for the reply. I have seen that effect on other coins and wondered what it was.

2bucks

ChuckC - Thanks for showing your results so far. Very nice colors. Anyone else have pics - please post them!

Still waiting for pics from:

GaCoinGuy, speer34 and Relayer...........

relayer

relayer

GaCoinGuy

Mine is basically the same as original, with a few brownish spots starting to show. I apologize about the lack of pics so far, I have been busy moving and getting everything setup. We just got the internet back on WEdnesday, after the satelite guys chopped the underground phone line putting the pole in the ground for the dish. Gonna get some pics in the morning and get them posted. If I had to say which of the posted is most like mine so far, it'd have to be Carls.

robertpr

TTT ... any results for this month?