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Can You Tone Coins in an Easy-Bake Oven?

CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,654 ✭✭✭✭✭
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A grizzled, old coin veteran claimed to me that he learned to tone coins as a child in his sister's E-Z bake oven. I am not sure that he wasn't kidding.

So, does it work image
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    lostincoinslostincoins Posts: 4,278 ✭
    yes it can work same as sticking a coin on a light bulb as that is what the old units used because of the heat output.
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    MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    The German chocolate clad halves taste the best. image
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    messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,784 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Heat's heat.
    John
    Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
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    WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Maybe, but you can bake a cake...
    Good for you.
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    TommyTypeTommyType Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭✭✭
    So....we've identified one of the coin doctors! Her name is Betty Crocker!
    Easily distracted Type Collector
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    BustHalfBrianBustHalfBrian Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭✭
    Lots of the AT coins you see on eBay are created this way (not necessarily with an Easy Bake, but an oven of some sort). They spritz some chemicals on the coin's surface and let it cook for awhile.
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    lkeigwinlkeigwin Posts: 16,895 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes, it works. And they look very AT.
    Lance.
    Coin Photography Services / Everyman Registry set / BHNC #213
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    NapNap Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sure, why not? You could tone a coin with just about any heat source.
    My medieval coin collection
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    FullStrikeFullStrike Posts: 4,353 ✭✭✭
    What I'm eager to know is could a talented lady Numismatist/Chef create a Holiday meal and tone up some wonderful
    SAE's at the same time?

    Wouldn't that be a meal to remember!






    .......... and this one was in my baked potato.
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    TinyTiny Posts: 2,598

    When you try it put a banana peeling in there with the coin and afterwards
    scrap the dried inside part of the peeling on to a zig zag paper role it up
    and smoke it. The coin will look cool, lots of colors.

    You can also put coins on the roof of the garage.

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    BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,642 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>When you try it put a banana peeling in there with the coin and afterwards
    scrap the dried inside part of the peeling on to a zig zag paper role it up
    and smoke it. The coin will look cool, lots of colors.

    You can also put coins on the roof of the garage. >>



    Known as bananadine!
    theknowitalltroll;
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    LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,679 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not much different than putting a coin in a cardboard holder, sticking it in the window for a few months..........but faster. 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.
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    TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 45,091 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No, I cannot, and may never. But do feel free.

    https://acoinshop.com/ —-> https://ebay.us/m/KxolR5

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    LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Won't that melt the cointains I know it melted that slab I dropped on the base board heater and didn't notice right away?image
    BTW found it before the dime even did anything.
    My Current project....https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/mysetregistry/album/160794
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    AMRCAMRC Posts: 4,280 ✭✭✭✭✭
    While there are many ways you can tone a coin, the only legitimate reason to do so is to know what AT coins look like.
    MLAeBayNumismatics: "The greatest hobby in the world!"
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    ZriderZrider Posts: 365
    know what AT coins look like ... this was baked
    image
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    johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 33,122 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Maybe, but you can bake a cake... >>

    yeah and maybe shake and bake to image
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    ms70ms70 Posts: 13,958 ✭✭✭✭✭
    image
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    JustMe2JustMe2 Posts: 180 ✭✭


    << <i>While there are many ways you can tone a coin, the only legitimate reason to do so is to know what AT coins look like. >>



    If you can find a way to quickly tone a coin that looks like what is market acceptable (stored in a coin album for along time or what not), what's the difference?
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    ms70ms70 Posts: 13,958 ✭✭✭✭✭
    One is naturally occurring, the other is unnaturally accelerated.
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    ColonelJessupColonelJessup Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Incandescents are waaaay too hot. Keep your heat under 212 Fahrenheit . . . . image

    Ooooooops..... image
    "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - Geo. Orwell
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    magikbillymagikbilly Posts: 6,780 ✭


    << <i>Incandescents are waaaay too hot. Keep your heat under 212 Fahrenheit . . . . image

    Ooooooops..... image >>




    As speculated, under BP for water.

    Eric
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    lostincoinslostincoins Posts: 4,278 ✭
    JustMe2 that is always an argument done slowly without your knowledge is worth money done quickly with your knowledge is worthless, so done slowly with your knowledge should be worthless but it's not. As the coin turns colors from contaminants in the air and surfaces that the coin is in contact with over a long period of time those colors/contaminants lay on the surface at differing thicknesses causing the light to refract/reflect much differently than a coin that was contaminated/oxidized in a fast time frame. All colors on a coin are contamination/oxidation and not a natural part of the coins surface as minted. The main issue is how the current market has determined values for this surface contamination, coins that have been contaminated/oxidized over a long period of time are valuable because of the time it took to get all the different subtle layers.
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    CoinspongeCoinsponge Posts: 3,927 ✭✭✭
    That make me think of the next curved coin theme. On the convex side you have a big fat chocolate chip cookie and on the concave side a big open mouth. Of course we will have to wait for a big anniversary of the cookie.
    Gold and silver are valuable but wisdom is priceless.
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    lostincoinslostincoins Posts: 4,278 ✭
    I thought they made the concave coins to do shots out of at shows?
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    sparky64sparky64 Posts: 7,063 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I thought they made the concave coins to do shots out of at shows? >>


    That is all well and good BUT that avatar has GOT TO GO!! image

    "If I say something in the woods and my wife isn't there to hear it.....am I still wrong?"

    My Washington Quarter Registry set...in progress

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    LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,679 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Was thinking of this thread today, wondering why my coins on the office sill weren't toning - suddenly realized I have UV-blocking 3M film on that one. 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.

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