Show your toned coins here!

I confess Ive experimented with artificial toning. no results Im proud of tho.

here are some french aluminum-bronze roosters, the 1954-B has grown a wonderful rainbow of colors

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Its harder to get toned coins in Christchurch, than it was in Auckland. My new city has a much colder and drier climate than Auckland. The average temperature is 5 degrees cooler (11c vs 16c) and winters in particular are very cold. Any fine day in winter will have a low under freezing. Even in Spring it can be below 0c. Today is a clear day and its mid August, yet we still got -3c this morning and a high of just 13c (Some days it gets to like 7c and its still under 0c at 11am). So coins don't tone, they shiver.

This 1825 Maundy Tuppence was bought from someone living in the Coromandel though, which is very humid and warm (avg temp 15c) and winter mornings stay above 5c and even 10c. I like how its toned to a cobalt blue/black colour over its 200 years. The wide rim and tiny lettering make this almost look like a Roman coin rather than a late Georgian pastiche.

Photo of head is hazy as phone cameras can't focus very well on 12mm size coins.

Some lovely dark blue/purple toned silver ½ Gulden from Germany.

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Some lovely dark blue/purple toned silver ½ Gulden from Germany.

Those are lovely 😍

I have been getting some pretty nice uncirculated Lincoln cents in change recently. As usual the photo doesnt capture the full iridescence.

I have a theory that since the mints have stop producing new cents, bank vaults across the world are being emptied of never openned boxes and sacks that havent been moved in decades.

Now that is interesting. I'll have to request my pennies in change and stop rounding down.

Maybe people are starting to spend all their saved up pennies.  The other day I had somebody ask me way the government was stopping cash sales.  Some people only read half and then only remember a quarter. 

It happened again today. Look at this amazing coin I got in circulation -

Some contact marks, but otherwise BU, with brassy streaks all all through.

One of these days when the sun is shining, I wanna go outside and take a group photo of my silver coins that are toned rainbow

Hoping it’s nice out tomorrow so I can do this! I have some beauts I think y’all would appreciate!

Earlier this year I found a set for sale of Maldives coins from 1960, then missing in my collection. The set wasn't specifically sold as proof, but I'm quite sure they are. Mostly I collect circulation coins, not proof neither do I collect on toning, yet the bronze 1 and 2 laari coins had such extreme toning that I felt I should share them here. The 1 laari: N#22004

This is a fun thread, why not try to revive it?

A really nicely toned british shilling; 

The high parts are way more toned than the lower ones, it looks fantastic in good lighting!

It actually looks this way even without using a camera, a lovely sight to behold.

(Comparison photo where you can see the toning better)

It's a really nice thread indeed!

Here a Canadian 5 cents coin I acquired a few months ago with some nice light blue toning (it took taking the picture under an angle to capture the colouring as best as I could):

Another blue one.

This Ha´Penny turns from a nice brown to a vibrant blue when the light hits it just right.

Glad this thread is still going, because there are some stunners being shown!

Henrythecoinguy, I am just lost for words with that amazing ancient!

Heres a less ancient 1952 South African Florin.

There's a 1933 that is black and blue literally, but I don't have a photo of it yet.

Also this nice and scarce 1963 2½cents (Decimal tickey)

And a 1923 Penny (1st year of Union coinage) with lustre and tone

South Africa provides great coins with tone, as its climate ensured many coins got toned and its lack of popularity with most collectors (Possibly its hard history of apartheid and racism) means coins are plentiful and cheap. Honestly such nice coins, you can look past the politics and just add some first class pieces to your collection of toned coins!