1939 Canada Penny Uncleaned Looks Way More Like Brass Than Copper .

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westy00 Valued Member Canada 340 Posts	Posted 01/06/2022 9:15 pm Report this Post to the Staff

Pacificoin Pillar of the Community Canada 5394 Posts	Posted 01/06/2022 9:17 pm Absolutely cleaned.Just look at the scrubbing hairlines lines . Brasso is a likely culprit . Used in conjunction with a brush of some sort . Report this Post to the Staff
westy00 Valued Member Canada 340 Posts	Posted 01/06/2022 9:24 pm My point is it looks more like brass not copper . Just interesting cleaned or not . Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10456 Posts	Posted 01/06/2022 9:32 pm Canadian coins are bronze, not copper. I have a number of Canadian cents with "brass" toning, some of it natural, some of intentional... we usually get about 3-4 1859 examples posted per year, with optimistic folks who think they have the real deal... "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
kuh_85 Pillar of the Community Canada 2366 Posts	Posted 01/06/2022 9:33 pm Cleaning can result in some interesting colour changes Report this Post to the Staff
Coinfrog Bedrock of the Community United States 94367 Posts	Posted 01/07/2022 09:01 am This is not an unusual color shade for this coin. Report this Post to the Staff
Silver101 Pillar of the Community Canada 1081 Posts	Posted 01/25/2022 10:02 pm I've heard cleaned copper/bronze described as 'salmon coloured'... Report this Post to the Staff
okiecoiner Pillar of the Community Canada 5585 Posts	Posted 01/26/2022 08:18 am As I've said before, concerning 1859's, there are 3-4 cleaning agents in everyone's home, under the sink or in the laundry, that will turn coinage-bronze into something resembling brass in color. This coin has been "scrubbed" heavily and my first choice is Brasso, as mentioned above. Report this Post to the Staff
Alex A Pillar of the Community 710 Posts	Posted 01/26/2022 09:07 am Yup, cleaned and buffed. Report this Post to the Staff
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