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Don't store your silver coins in leather

tydyetydye Posts: 3,894 ✭✭✭
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Or this might happen. Actually has kind of a neat sheen to it
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  • jmcu12jmcu12 Posts: 2,452 ✭✭✭
    I don't know... I kinda like it. image
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,846 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I guess the tannic acid is what reacted with the silver. Is leather ever used to AT coins? Obviously, you wouldn't want to leave it in contact with the leather for too long.

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  • tahoe98tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭

    ....always use naugahyde! image
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  • BarbercoinBarbercoin Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭
    My grandfather used to keep a coin in his wallet. I can't remember what kind of coin it was because I was so young, but I remember it was very dark. Cool.

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  • tydyetydye Posts: 3,894 ✭✭✭
    I am assuming this one spent a good 80+ years in one. It recently was found in one and judging by the condition it was probably placed there soon after being made
  • kazkaz Posts: 9,274 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I like it. Very different, but I like it. I think this one may have been kept in a similar fashion.

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  • crypto79crypto79 Posts: 8,623 ✭


    << <i>I like it. Very different, but I like it. I think this one may have been kept in a similar fashion.

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    I think that is a pretty nice coin
  • adamlaneusadamlaneus Posts: 6,969 ✭✭✭
    Back then....Soooooo many different ways that they tanned leather.
    Just about all of them I know of involve an array of nasty chemicals. Living around a 'Tannery'. Phew.

    I sometimes like this look. Especially nice effect on your peace dollar.
    I've seen a few gold coins with quite a brown varnish on them too. Might be leather pouch storage that does that.
  • mozinmozin Posts: 8,755 ✭✭✭
    Coins stored in leather billfolds need to be flipped and rotated every month. In about a year, the toning should be very obvious, but probably not too dark. I really do not recommend this method of speeding up the toning process. The grading services now even refuse to grade coins toned in the old paper envelopes, toned over many years. It seems the grading services now do not much like any kind of secondary toning, what normally happens after a coin is dipped.
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  • jonathanbjonathanb Posts: 3,754 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Don't store copper coins in leather. The results are MUCH worse...
  • sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
    It doesn't look that bad to me. In fact, I think I like it.
  • kazkaz Posts: 9,274 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Does anyone have an example of copper stored in leather? Just curious.. does it just turn green?
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    While I do not agree with the term 'dreck', I most assuredly see a place for the term 'bleccchhhh'. image Cheers, RickO
  • RebelRonRebelRon Posts: 544 ✭✭
    Yes Sir! Beauty is in the eye of the beholder! image
  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,109 ✭✭✭✭✭


    Stored in a leather pouch for decades.

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  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 35,867 ✭✭✭✭✭
    brutal.

    not for me.

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