I have three wine colored pennies and I was wondering if anyone knew what causes that. Also I have a 1968 penny where Lincoln's image is so pressed out it looks 3D. What's the phrase for that? Thank you, Tom.
The wine color is due to natural toning. Did you have them stored away somewhere? The 1968 is a well struck struck Cent. A lot of Cents from the 1960's have that cool appearance.
Well, I had a bottle of wine that had a really unfortunate sulfuric smell (bottle fault, I think). I threw a couple of copper pennies in the bottle, and the sulfur smell went away. Wine colored pennies came out at the end.
