The medallion originally looked as shiny as any newly silver minted coin. It doesnt look painted, it toned due to some reaction with the felt from the box, or with air, or something else, or a combination of these. It also toned in blueish,greenish, turquoiseish hues - these are the best looking hues.
Thanks Thucy! Did a bit of googling and saw the original condition. But that blue hues just under the ribbon look very uniform, almost look like it's painted lol! And i can also see where the oil from handling the coin reacted with the silver, someone's fingerprint!
Like the recent contris here Can't give you any goss on the commemorative round ,Silver Soul,but i do like the definition on this one..toning brings out the best in some silver. The coin and medallion set is very desirable too.Got it all ..Blue and gold on the medallion and faint purple on the kook. I drooled As Thucy wrote ..hide them well
The coin below isnt TONED, however it is unique as it has traces of a cracked die during the minting process. There is a raised edge showing where the metal from the planchet filled the gap in the die. The coin below is the same coin, except that it was minted in a different year of reign. The coin is KM# 750 5 KURUSH 6.0130 g., 0.8300 Silver 0.1605 oz. ASW Obv: Toughra; "Reshat" to right Rev: Inscription and date within star border and design Mint: Qustantiniyah
So cool, glad I found this thread. I've got some sweet additions to the thread once the sun comes out and I can take photos. For now, I'll show y'all the toned quarter that I've got. and a quite nice canadian half more and better ones to come!
With all the interest in toning I assume anyone owning shares in metal polish manufacturers will be panicked ! If you drop oil or gasoline onto a pool of water you will see wonderful rainbow colours but if you were thirsty would you drink this water ? Not sure I see the interest in polluted / chemically oxidised coins. If you want to ruin your silver you can possibly barbeque it or try heating your coins in a container with either tobacco or sulphur. Should give you that sought after toning! Sorry stackers but this toning thing in my opinion is utter crap. Silver has an exceptional high reflectivity and therefore can appear shiny like a mirror. Anything else is just contamination but to some, might be construed as art.
Look, you're not the only one here with a science background or aware of photons. You've now made three comments, all somewhat condescending, and that is two too many (you're allowed to speak your mind at least once I suppose). I've had a 4 yr physics degree, and I know Thucy has a science background (not sure exactly what) and that he understands what tones a coin. It is easy to artificially tone a coin like you say - but it either looks like crap or is easily identified as artificial. Why do you think some grading companies include AT on some artificially toned coins? I like shiny silver too, that is why I have that as well. Let me ask you a question, mate - you like sunsets? Well some sunsets are quite magnificent partly because of pollutants that do not belong. Have you thought of that?
Here's one of my Canadian 50 Cent pieces and a Morgan dollar. The camera never quite captures it so on the half, I enhanced one or two photos and left the rest as is.
Just catching up on there recent contris to this thread..nice photos of great coins ,sam. I picked this one up in a Sydney pawnbrokers for a song .... A slight purple tone on both sides.In what I hope is a Sterling silver bezel
Here's another Morgan too bad the reverse has that little inconsistency in the toning up by the top. Maybe it will come back in time.
Here's a sterling silver Newfoundland 25 cent piece that I picked out of a box of world coins. I paid 20c for it. Not even face value. So sweet. It's about a $25 to $35 coin.
Time to give the old Toners a boost, I think Got this recently and quite enjoy it's company A Silver coin bowl..I tested the bowl with acid and it gives me the red light ..which is positive for silver. Coin is nicely toned with good definition on both faces...A Belgium 5 Franc. Weighs about 1.85 oz.. Diameter is 75 mm
Here is a nice Toned Buffalo round, it's only nice on the 1 side except for some minor toning around the edges. Source: Source:
Here's my 1934-35 Centenary Florin, it's toned a Bronze colour but I would still call it UNC as you can still the mint luster under a loop. Enjoy !! Source: Source:
WOW SS ... that is a beauti... yeppp shes unc alright.. and that pretty toning is evidence of no foul play (sacralige CLEAN!) I am very jealous...
