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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrjason71, post: 2907602, member: 90347&quot;]Whoa I didn&#039;t realize this thread was still going on. I thought Id get an email alert if something new came through. Ironically I did a search on a term and this popped up <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> You know that ugly pink color that people hate to see and use as a denigrating description of &quot;cleaned&quot; coins? Well that is the color of a freshly minted copper coin in my estimation--at least those Ive been able to witness newly minted each year. Copper coins might have been a different color when newly minted 50, 100 years ago--I wouldn&#039;t know since I was not alive. I assume they were pink as well (unless the switch to zinc had something to do with this). You would think people would like that pink color. They do turn red awfully quick. I have a ton of post 1980 red pennies (and lots of 1935-1980s) that I have personally taken immediately out of circulation. They were pink. They are now red. To GDJMSP&#039;s point: I guess copper tones so quickly that people cannot believe that a copper coin is still newly minted pink. This is a little off the point but I have a bunch of 1935-1959 cents that are a beautiful orange. Is that what comes after the red? And then into brown? Pink, red, orange, then brown? Or did some other storage scenario create the orange and these were never &quot;red&quot;?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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