Has anyone ever put coins into old Whitman holders and stuck them into the oven?
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Has anyone ever put coins into old Whitman holders and stuck them into the oven?
Of course at a temperature low enough to not ignite the folders.
Would the heat cause the coins to tone in a naturally appearing way but more rapidly?
What if you left them in the oven for a few days or weeks?
Of course at a temperature low enough to not ignite the folders.
Would the heat cause the coins to tone in a naturally appearing way but more rapidly?
What if you left them in the oven for a few days or weeks?
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<< <i>Of course at a temperature low enough to not ignite the folders.? >>
That would be important, yes. We don't want a Fahrenheit 451 situation here. Maybe we need to do an experiment with different types of coin folders and see how they affect the shake and bake process, and determine the temperature at which they combust.
I wonder what baking a Wayte Raymond album would do to some coins...
Sean Reynolds
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500 degrees must have been just coins in the oven as paper (I would think) would ignite at 500 degrees. The whitman holders are the necessary provider of the sulphur toning agent.
Would heat just accelerate the process i.e. would you get naturally appearing coins under the right conditions or would it produce obviously AT'd coins? Would the heat have any effect on the results?
Surely someone has tried this.
<< <i>I read a post a while back about how coins can tone aggressively in homes with natural gas heat, I guess there is some residual sulphur in the forced hot air. I'm seriously considering taking a Wayte Raymond mint set album which has already produced some nice toners, loading it with white coins, and putting it in the filter box of my furnace for one heating season. I think that could be a really interesting experiment...
Sean Reynolds >>
Yes, methyl sulfide is intentionally put in natural gas, thats what gives leaking gas the noticable odor. Presumably, once the gas combusts, the sulfur must be present in trace quantities in the effluent from the furnace. Sounds like a good experiment.
Mark
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