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cmerlo1cmerlo1 Posts: 8,044 ✭✭✭✭✭
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After reading about Taco Bell napkins, old albums, and other paper with high sulfur content and it's effects on coins, I decided to give it a try. I had a milk-spotted 2006 silver eagle lying around, and I decided to wrap it in a piece of newsprint from Numismatic news and put it on my window sill. Here are the results after 3 months. The patches without toning are the milk spots- they didn't tone. I find this very interesting...anyway, I'm not trying to re-start the AT vs NT debate, I just thought I'd share the results of my experiment...

--Christian

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    STONESTONE Posts: 15,275 ✭
    Neat results, and quick too!

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    coinkid855coinkid855 Posts: 5,012 ✭✭✭
    I like it. I've had a milk-spotted ASE sitting on my window sill in a taco bell napkin for about 4 or 5 months....I'll post a picture later if I remember....=p


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    rgCoinGuyrgCoinGuy Posts: 7,478 ✭
    Wow that is pretty cool!
    imageQuid pro quo. Yes or no?
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    Mercury10cMercury10c Posts: 2,958
    Try another experiment: Send it in to PCGS.
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    etexmikeetexmike Posts: 6,852 ✭✭✭
    Except for the milk spots, not a bad looking coin.

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    etexmike
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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nothing a little dippety doo wouldn't cure.... image Cheers, RickO
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    a039a039 Posts: 1,546 ✭
    Laying on an open Starbucks Napkin on top of the water heater for about nine months,


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    jdillanejdillane Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Laying on an open Starbucks Napkin on top of the water heater for about nine months,


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    Wow! That's scary nice!
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    BECOKABECOKA Posts: 16,961 ✭✭✭
    Nice, I wonder if we could keep the milk spots from forming if we do the toning first. image
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    DJCoinzDJCoinz Posts: 3,856 ✭


    << <i>After reading about Taco Bell napkins, old albums, and other paper with high sulfur content and it's effects on coins, I decided to give it a try. I had a milk-spotted 2006 silver eagle lying around, and I decided to wrap it in a piece of newsprint from Numismatic news and put it on my window sill. Here are the results after 3 months. The patches without toning are the milk spots- they didn't tone. I find this very interesting...anyway, I'm not trying to re-start the AT vs NT debate, I just thought I'd share the results of my experiment...

    --Christian

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    So how did you wrap the coin? Was it just like one layer of paper on each side of the coin or more?
    aka Dan
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    TheRegulatorTheRegulator Posts: 1,242 ✭✭✭

    Holy Cow! Numismatic News is good for something! image
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    DeadhorseDeadhorse Posts: 3,720 ✭


    << <i>Laying on an open Starbucks Napkin on top of the water heater for about nine months,


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    Top of the water heater?

    Well, that settles it.

    I've got a few unc 60's frankies that are going there tonight.

    My water heater, not yours. Not to worry. image
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    John Marnard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920, page 235ff

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