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Terminal toning on silver?

LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,443 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Have an experiment on my window sill. Bought these off the BST some time back housed in an older coin board.



Most of the silver quarters are nicely toned, but on one side only.



These 2 are much darker than the remaining coins - not sure what was done to them before I acquired them. image



Think I'll dip them, put them back on the window sill and see what happens.



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  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭
    NOoooooooooo! Use the 1960 to play with as it is gone! Only dip the bottom half so you can see both. Then you can play with the top half using baking soda before you dip it. You'll learn a lot about improper cleaning, when not to do it, and what it looks like. The other coin can be saved by a "professional" and come out nice enough to sell.
  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,511 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Whoa! That 60 looks like charcoal, soot or brake dust. image
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  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 9,660 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks like some serious environmental damage to what appears to be otherwise decent coins.

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  • mannie graymannie gray Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The 62 still looks OK
  • bsshog40bsshog40 Posts: 3,949 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yea the 60 is pretty rough. The 62 almost looks like an unrinsed dipped tone to me. But what do I know. Lol
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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,443 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hey - it's cheap entertainment, but like watching grass grow! image
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
  • AmazonXAmazonX Posts: 680 ✭✭✭✭
    *Puts tin foil hat on*

    They were on the window sill, huh? That is close to the window, which is outside. They sky is outside. You know what's in the sky? Chemtrails! Chemtrails produce toning!!!!!*

    *Or the illuminate peering into your windows and toning them with their eyes.



    In all seriousness, how long have they been sitting on the window sill? I like the '62.
  • illini420illini420 Posts: 11,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Still have a little ways to go before they are totally toast image

    Check out this GSA Morgan I recently submitted for a client... PCGS put it in an UNC Details holder image Looks like they took pics while still in GSA plastic though... totally charred!!!!

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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,443 ✭✭✭✭✭
    THAT was in a GSA holder??



    Was it mailed during the anthrax scare?? image
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Coin was obviously ALTERED while in GSA holder. In the book "Coin Chemistry" the author toned a group of coins in TPGS slabs to make a point that they were not air tight.
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The ultimate fate of all silver coins that are allowed to tarnish unchecked. There could

    be a few reasons for the speed at which it occurred.... some have been named already.

    Certainly they provide the opportunity to learn further about dipping ... I would experiment if they were mine. Cheers, RickO
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,505 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    This has been sitting in a Dansco Album in a cool dry place for a long time. It just gets darker.
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I posted one of Jay Cline's 1916 SLQ silvered brass store card tokens a couple years ago here which had toned into a peripheral ringed rainbow monster. I was in a hurry after I imaged it and tossed it back in it's paper envelope instead of a flip. I rediscovered it in a drawer about a year later and it looked like every animal on Noah's Ark took a dump on it.



    No need to post pics as just look at illini420's GSA $1 and envision a few dozen black spots.
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  • SeattleSlammerSeattleSlammer Posts: 10,047 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That poor '60 looks like it's on death's door. Or perhaps it already crossed over and came back to haunt someone...
    Sure, experiments with Washies are easy.......crack that Stella and let's see what happens you big chicken!

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