Rainbow Tone On Cents

I heated the coin up dropped it into cold water. I am going to try other ways using heat but different cooldowns. I am going to keep the lincoln as it looks pretty cool. And thanks for your respond.

CC9999, your post made me laugh. I'm not trying to scam people. The coin is for me to learn to be a coin doctor. Na, I'm joking. I just wanted to make natural rainbow tone. It can ruin the coin so don't try it on good ones. I going to use my in change coins.

P.s, the coin told me to try it. He said he wants to be pretty

I agree that the natural toning id ok. I don't think subjecting them to chemicals or heat is that way to go. It should be a details grade at that point although may be hard to prove.

What grates me about this post, and I've seen it with a few newer members to the forum, not just this particular instance with the OP, is they make a pointless stupid thread. spend about 10 seconds writing something, in this case - I'm artificially toning coins with some methods I thought up... now my coin looks awesome... is it worth more money?

This is not numismatics. This is attention seeking and I think if you want to seek attention by displaying bad behavior and ignorance, then maybe there's a better place for it.

Cc9999, I have been here for like 90 days. If you don't like this thread why post? I just thought it WAS cool to make my own rainbow tone coins.I just asked if it's worth anything meaning would you want one? I should of added more information in my post. You're right with that.
No matter what I can sell them to people, there will always be someone who wants a rainbow tone coin that wasn't made by Chemicals. I used heat and water. This is okay but not the very best. One of the coins it damaged because I should of been more careful. I will never try this one my real collection coins. Like I said before the coin wasn't a slab. Just some penny I had for a few years and it was looking fine. I don't understand why so much hate on me?

I'm just posting to have fun in this coin community. If you feel this thread is a waste why did you sign up then? This is supposed to be a forum where people share coin photo's, stories, and more nice things. But when we get people like you who woke up on the wrong side of bed and look for a harmless forum member to snap on. That isn't fun or nice when it happens. Just because your day isn't going good don't come and try to put people down and them make feel bad. I collect coins because I like them. I feel good looking at all the coins I have. I try and think of all the years these coins been around with different people. If this thread wasn't allow or if it was to stupid why didn't jbuck or some other forum mod close it? People like you I just never understand. From reviewing this post of yours:




I find it pretty offensive. The way you copied my smiley people I used, the part where you put "is it worth more" is really just pushing it. To be realistic I don't know what to say about you....
You make it like you own the forum and can only be what you allow on the forums. Well you don't own it and it's a public forum. So if you want to harass people please go try it in real life to someone else. You'll see what they do about it. I guess over the internet you feel so cool and strong. To say what you really are would get me banned from the forums. But I'm not going to because I don't like to bother people. I never bully people as it's very wrong. Now hopefully tomorrow you'll wake up on the right side of bed and not be so mean to me.

I'm not a dealer, I'm just a collector. From what I know, you're not allowed to melt coins but you're allowed to: clean, polish, heat them up, and color them.

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Section 331 of Title 18 of the United States code provides criminal penalties for anyone who fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates impairs, diminishes, falsifies, scales, or lightens any of the coins coined at the Mints of the United States. This statute means that you may be violating the law if you change the appearance of the coin and fraudulently represent it to be other than the altered coin that it is. As a matter of policy, the Mint does not promote coloring, plating or altering U.S. coinage: however, there are no sanctions against such activity absent fraudulent intent.


I only got one rainbow toned cent I made. I didn't make others yet. I'm not really going to sell them. I was joking around to see what you say. If they were high demand I would.


But you got to say, it's always fun to test experiments on coins. Just use your coins you get from change. I put the 2007 Lincoln Cent away in my box. I am going to keep it as I like it. The coin was going to be tossed into a roll then taken to the bank. So by changing it's color to rainbow ton he's now being kept inside a holder.

That quote was not accompanied by a smiley or any hint that it wasn't a legitimate request on your part. And we've no real basis for evaluating your true intent, since this is just a collection of electrons. Although you've made your intent clear since (which means the dogpile can stop now), the reaction from the membership is understandable.

Personally, I discourage even doing this for experimentation, with no intent of ever offering the coin anywhere. There's too much chance of the coin entering the market somewhere down the road - if one tires of the fun and throws the stuff back into circulation, someone could opportunistically snag them from change and throw them onto ebay.

There's no justification for artificially toning a coin ever.