I want to tone a coin....how do I?

keoj

Okay, here's the scenerio. I have this coin (I could have said a "friend" of mine, but you'd see right through it). It's likely that I will never sell this coin. The coin is VERY bright (as though it was dipped in the past) but has some splotchly dark tone areas. The bottom line is that it's not that pretty. The coin is a very tough variety. The coin is not MS so I don't want to dip it again.

I would like to darken the coin a little.....get rid of the blazing whiteness (I realize the heresy of that last statement). Assume that I have different timeframes:
- 1 year
- 5 years
- 10 years

What's the best way to darken a coin without causing a hugely unnatural look? I am NOT looking for rainbows or wild colors.

Thanks.

Keoj

MORGANHUNTER2

Silver, copper, gold????

MadMarty

If the pug was still with us, he would give it a toning hump for free! and you would get this...

dizzyfoxx

pharmer

1. Obtain one (1) goose.
2. Feed coin to goose.
3. Wait

Deadhorse

<< <i>Silver, copper, gold???? >>




Yes, that bit of info would help, wouldn't it?

OK, this answer is for either silver or gold, but it works faster and better for silver.

Get yourself a square of toilet paper, the cheaper stuff works best here. Cut it down to a size where you can fold it in half to cover both sides of the coin.

You want one single layer on each side. Set the coin in a window sill facing south, west if you don't have a south facing window.

The coin will darken towards a shade of gold/brown, it can take as little as 6-8 weeks to 6 months or more. It will just continue to darken the longer you leave it there. If you want both sides equal, flip it over on a weekly basis.

Toilet paper has just a very slight amount of sulfer in it, the cheaper the paper, the more sulfer. One layer only as you need the sunlight to filter through the paper onto the coin.

Good luck with it. I've turned an ASE gold in 10 days with this, just as an experiment, of course that's a .999 fine silver coin and probably unlike the composition of your coin.

keoj

Deadhorse:

Thank you very much....the coin is silver. Like I said, I can wait years.

keoj

LindeDad

Or send it to Lucy to put in her magic album.

fivecents

Put them in Wayte Raymond albums and forget about it.

carl

I recently tried toning a penny. I may try the same thing soon with a silver coin. For the penny I put it in a pot of boiling water on the stove. I proceded to add everything I could fine in the kitchen to the boiling water. such things as sugar, salt, onion salt, garlic powder, vinegar, lemon juice, ground pepper, sage, tomato paste and on and on and on. Eventually I let this cool enough to remove the coin and cool it in a spoon of dish soap. Not satisfied I put the coin directly on the stoves burners. Still not satisfied I put the coin is a piece of cotton and soaked it with gun bluing.
I don't know if you would call it toned but the original luster of someone cleaning this coins was gone for sure.
Other methods you may try is to put the coin in a flower pot full of wet dirt. Spit on the coin frequently and leave on a window sill. Cut a slice in a hard boiled egg and insert the coin in the egg and leave outside for a few weeks.

VamGuy

<< <i>I recently tried toning a penny. I may try the same thing soon with a silver coin. For the penny I put it in a pot of boiling water on the stove. I proceded to add everything I could fine in the kitchen to the boiling water. such things as sugar, salt, onion salt, garlic powder, vinegar, lemon juice, ground pepper, sage, tomato paste and on and on and on. Eventually I let this cool enough to remove the coin and cool it in a spoon of dish soap. Not satisfied I put the coin directly on the stoves burners. Still not satisfied I put the coin is a piece of cotton and soaked it with gun bluing.
I don't know if you would call it toned but the original luster of someone cleaning this coins was gone for sure.
Other methods you may try is to put the coin in a flower pot full of wet dirt. Spit on the coin frequently and leave on a window sill. Cut a slice in a hard boiled egg and insert the coin in the egg and leave outside for a few weeks. >>

Idiot. You forgot to stand on your head with your right index finger in your left nostril while facing south at midnight during a full moon in a leap year.

ChuckC

Stick it in an envelope with some match heads:

my experiment

majorbigtime

Try a blowtourch

yellowjacket

I had a well-struck albeit cleaned 1917-S buffalo. I was just too bright. I put in a 2x2 envelope and set it on the window sill for a year. In the end it looked like a toned, cleaned coin. I gave up on it and sold it.

YJ

Kip

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<< <i>Silver, copper, gold???? >>




Yes, that bit of info would help, wouldn't it?

OK, this answer is for either silver or gold, but it works faster and better for silver.

Get yourself a square of toilet paper, the cheaper stuff works best here. Cut it down to a size where you can fold it in half to cover both sides of the coin.

You want one single layer on each side. Set the coin in a window sill facing south, west if you don't have a south facing window.

The coin will darken towards a shade of gold/brown, it can take as little as 6-8 weeks to 6 months or more. It will just continue to darken the longer you leave it there. If you want both sides equal, flip it over on a weekly basis.

Toilet paper has just a very slight amount of sulfer in it, the cheaper the paper, the more sulfer. One layer only as you need the sunlight to filter through the paper onto the coin.

Good luck with it. I've turned an ASE gold in 10 days with this, just as an experiment, of course that's a .999 fine silver coin and probably unlike the composition of your coin. >>




You can do it in 2 days if you lay a turd on it