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Newb To Hobby - Question About Toning On Copper Cents

 
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 Posted 05/01/2022  05:01 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Meztido to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Hey all.

Last week I feel I got lucky and bought 58 rolls of pennies from an estate sale for about 10% of the price eBay sellers would charge lol. Finally cracked them open just now.

Now I'm new to coin collecting and have quite a handful of wheats. However, they are all either brown, black or a nice red color. These cents have all the above, but I'm seeing some that are blueish/purplish in color. I do apologize as the pic isn't the best, but I tried to get a lot of them in the same pic so the quality kind of lacks.

But what I'm wondering is this — are wheat pennies, or maybe pre 1982 pennies, able to tone naturally like this? Or is this artificial like from cleaning? Thanks in advance
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 Posted 05/01/2022  08:45 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Spence to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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are wheat pennies, or maybe pre 1982 pennies, able to tone naturally like this?


I think you are asking whether copper tones to a variety of shades and the answer is yes. Typical is a chocolate brown, but depending on the specific storage environment, other colors are possible. It looks like you have a nice mix of circulated coins here so they would have taken all different pathways prior to being part of someone's accumulation.
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Spence summarizes it well.



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 Posted 05/01/2022  9:10 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add T-BOP to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Most circulated wheat cents take on that toned color . All yours do not look cleaned . Your good to go .
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Agree with the others on toning. You did very well on the purchase. Time for an album to begin your journey!
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