What Would Change The Color Of A Penny And Why

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There are equally many different answers to that as there are cents. The earlier Lincoln's are mostly a copper composition. Copper changes hues in relation to the surroundings it is exposed to. The dome of my states capitol edifice is copper and it'southward as green as can be. Everything those cents have been exposed to... Sunlight, wet, sweaty pockets..... Everything contributes to the hue you lot see before you.
Then what about the really red looking ones ?
Is that just aother colour copper turns over fourth dimension?
Well there's no fashion to put a definitive response to that. I would doubtable natural toning though. However it could be as unproblematic equally a bored kid with a crayon! But natural toning occurs and tin make a copper cent turn most any hue.
There was a thread earlier this week where a post showing a comparison of copper cent hues from brown to red and every variation in between. Information technology was a chart really. I wish I wasn't on my telephone or I would hunt it downwardly for you.
Give thanks you for the information! I gauge I was trying to figure out what the colour difference plus the condition of a money would exist worth grading or not
I take a couple of wheat pennies in there and a couple 60'southward pennies that have a nice thick die on them. I really don't know what is grounds to take something graded or if its merely not worth it. I seen some where how the color of pennies brand a difference in the course?
No.... Colour variations take aught really to practise with coin grading. Those cents would exist nice to concur onto and start building a collection from but are face up value cents. Not at all coins that yous would want to invest the cost of grading. Pick yourself up a Redbook. It'south every coin lover bible. It will give you a foundation to build from earlier yous brand a mistake and spend money grading coins that you lot tin can't get back!
Very, very, very rarely is a coin pulled from circulation worth "grading" (significant submitting to a plastic factory), but if you'd similar to get a more general thought of grading standards and do not accept access to large numbers of graded coins, peradventure consider spending some time digging through the Heritage archives. Simply pick whatever type and search for them equally this will give you photos in slab-worthy class ranges. It's non a perfect solution and there will be expectations*, but should make for a decent start. Skillful luck.
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I have that chart merely I got it from this site which talks abit about the unlike colors of the cents.
https://world wide web.thesprucecrafts.com/copper-color-grading-768388
Thanks for that link. I believe that is exactly the info the OP was looking for. And I learned from it too.
Red is supposed to exist that fresh from the mint color and everything else is exposure to something of one kind or another.
Full general atmospheric and circulation gives the brown color. Which is really Environmental Impairment (ED), merely the kind we wait.

Everything else is some other class of ED, it's just that some are pleasing (crazy colors) and others are not.
I have a blue tint 2018 d penny is it worth any thing
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