toning copper pennies coins

MY TEACHER IS NOT SCAMMING ANYONE,HES TEACHING US ABOUT DIFFERENT METHODS OF MAKING OLD COINS LOOK OLD AGAIN.

 

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He just happened to use copper pennies as the test subject lol.

 

Stop shouting.

The only valid reason for "making old coins look old again" is to conceal the fact that they have been cleaned, in order to sell them for more than they are worth to people who don't know any better. That's running a scam.

 

thanks to most, of the people in here for trying to help me out,my teacher is not a collector,and niether am i ,i have no interest,i see how some people get angry because , i asked for some help...i will search else where.and to all you collectors...chill out.:goofer:

 

LOL good luck Kendra and as I said before if you get a chance to post a few pics please do :thumb:

De Orc

 

I'm sure your welcome...

Then please take some advise from some collectors....tell your teacher that cleaning old coins is bad...and retoning them to make them look old to fool people is bad and doesn't do any good.

Don't go....if you just knew how bad cleaning is you would understand why collectors get upset when someone comes and ask how is the best way to clean and retone a coin....its just plain bad for the coin...now...the coins you are using are collector coins....they are worth money and that is another reason why they hate to see you kill some coins.

Speedy

 

we decided not to use the 40,s but the 70s instead,ones that are really dirty.

 

Good for you did you explain the reaction your question had got to your teacher? this might well be something she/he had failed to anticipate.
Dont forget to keep us informed and who knows you might become interested in the hobby yourself (Lots of great history)

De Orc

 

removing wax from copper

now that i cleaned one with wax,i can get it off for the penny to tone.how shall i remove it.

 

Try this....get a match and light it and hold the coin with pliers and lit the wax drip off....don't hold the coin as it will get HOT.

Speedy

 

Geeze guys, they are just some stupid pennies. The kid aint dealing with the Holy Grail. One would also have to assume that the kids have not serendipitously found and molested a batch of 1909 S VDBs.

The teacher just needed some small pieces of copper to use as teaching tools. oxidation and dissolution.

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The easy way to clean copper, any copper item, is dip it in water with baking soda in it. I am not suggesting this for anyone to use on their coins unless you are performing a science project for school.
In any case "NO ONE" should be giving these kids a hard time about learning. Even if it cost the lives of a few pennies from the fourties (lets not forget that most of the 40's pennies were minted in the hundreds of millions and some billion).
Hey kids just don't takes coin from anyones collection to use. If they are your coins, they are yours to do with as you wish. Clean them, tone them, put them on a railroad track. Metallurgy is a science that coin collectors could benefit from, specially when it comes to metal toning and why it tones.

 

i baked another in the oven last night with the wax on it,and it turned silver?????????

 

Ouch...then what happened to mine I did a few weeks ago ?

Speedy

 

what happened.

 

thank you dog,at least you understand...:high5:

 

how can i get it back to the copper color.help needed,how did the oven turn it silver color.

 

What happened was that it toned....I would suggest starting over again with a new coin.

Speedy

 

Does anyone remember when some of us might have taken a few pennies to school with a little bottle of mercury, then rubbed the coins with mercury to "make them" silver. Show and tell stuff. If a kid did that today the sob sisters and Fire Marshal Bill would close the school and force the School District to spend $100K and have the classroom "remediated".

Heck, you have to have been born in the Late Pleistocene just to be familiar with the Fire Marshall Bill reference. I remember when you could buy dynamite over the counter at rural hardware stores. A person could shoot rats. Now you can't even spray lacquer automobile paint. Oh well, I guess we are all safer and wiser now.