Got this in change today from the grocery (beer) store and was wondering how a newer Lincoln cent gets a tone on it? AT? And if it is how could this be done and why? Other pics of newer toned Lincolns would be interesting if you want to post them ................(this is the same coin taken w/wo flash! Looks more like the second 2 in hand!) Click on the pics for (maybe) a better view - I had trouble taking pics of these for some reason!
That is exactly correct. I have several 2014 and 2015 Lincoln cents that were recovered from the sandy bottom of a very clean lake while metal detecting. A lot of these have some very attractive rainbow like toning.
I've seen them like those, too, and when I think they're cool, I keep them, too. Let me add a tip, collect what turns you on, and don't be turned off by some pretentious nut who wants call them "AT." It's all about, as Seattle86 said, the environment. Look at it this way, if the coin doesn't mind what it's called, why should you? "NT" and "AT" are arbitrary terms, anyway, and as such can't be defined.
Well went found in a "grocery " ( Beer) store they could of come in contact with a host of things........ My experience tells me they definitely exposed to a lower priced domestic beer,had they been exposed to a import they would be more a rainbow target type of toning . Cheers
You're too late, my wife made me stop collecting what was "Turning me on" and now I just collect coins!!!! Your reply was so great - you are a good man!!!!!!!
So you put it in a cloth bag, intending to tone it, it's AT, but you just intended to store it, it's NT. What about, you didn't know what you intended, QT?
Ha!! It was an oversimplification, but the gist of it is correct. True, I could store my coin in an envelope for a couple of years and it will develop a toning of some sort. My intention may have been to tone it, yes. But, there are people who have stored coins in an envelope without the intention of toning a coin. Whereas there are guys on eBay who apply anything from an electric field, heat, to using a potato with the sole intention of toning the coin at an accelerated rate. I know of no one who stores a coin in an oven, wraps a coin in a coil of electrified wiring or keeps them in a bag of peeled potatoes.
