Blue toned penny??

Okay i have a question.. i know this may be frowned upon but it is just with new pennies that i want to try it on. Artificial blue toning.. is that possible to do? especially on brand new pennies? i want that bright electric blue look, just to have and look at cause they are very cool and i don't have one. Please let me know if that is possible on the new 2013 pennies (i have a ton) or which type of pennies up to what year it would work on (due to composition?). And how is it done?

Thanks in advance,
T.J.

 

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sure its possible, if you know how to do it.

 

oh i meant to say and how do you do it, lol

 

I don't know. I assume most artificial toners don't tell their secrets.

 

hmmmm well i really hope that at least one person on the forum knows..

 

People DO know...the point that bkozak33 made is that people that can artificially tone cents to crazy colors don't want to share how they do it...then everyone would be doing it, and you wouldn't have such unique/special-looking coins. I'm sure a few google searches could help you out on your quest for AT...

 

Just slap some MS70 on it and be done with it.

 

Never tried it, but I would say a small torch of some kind.

 

that is what i was thinking

 

i found some good ones but most if not all are probably just for quarters but one in particular i am going to try with quarter and penny, if you think i should post a link to it here, comment and tell me to, but i dont know if that is something that someone would want on this site, let me know and i will (or wont) post a link to it

 

BooksB4Coins is correct in that the product MS70 is known for turning copper blue. I personaly have never tried it, but I believe it is a well known effect. Of course, many people who AT coins have likely spent lots of time perfecting their formula, and probably are not to fond of the idea of giving away their knowledge over the internet, especialy if they AT coins for profit. Good luck

 

i will have to find some of that

 

Set a penny on a light bulb. You can do some searching - seems there was a video someone posted on youtube how to do this. I think they used electrolysis or something like that. You can google on it.

 

Yep. This will do the trick for you.

 

Ms70

 

Ah another coin doctor in training.

 

+1 maybe he can cook it all in microwave!

 

Yeah, many a lincoln has been ruined and turned blue forever by beginners "improving" a coin. Blue is actually the telltale color of many types of cleaners. The residue eventually turns the cent blue, making past bad clean job plainly evident.

From an ancient collector point of view, blue IS a viable natural toning color. Its much more likely on brass than bronze, and the coins had to have been buried in a very tightly sealed container and some very special conditions apply. Blue is the rarest natural toning color there is for ancients, and a shiny hard blue toned coin is VERY desirable, and VERY expensive.

I have seen hard blue patina develop on lincoln and IHC with coins that were buried in the ground. Rare, but it does happen. I know they weren't AT since it was a hard patina and I helped dig them out of the ground!

Btw yes there is a was to AT a coin blue and not have to apply a chemical. However, why do you want to? Any lincoln that is blue will immediately tell a cent expert it was either buried, (and you will notice no hard patina so that is ruled out), chemically altered or AT. Blue simply does not normally occur on cents without some special conditions present, and those special conditions leave signatures.

 

i am not looking to ever sell it, like i stated it would be just to look at and enjoy, because i love the bright electric blue color

 

Ok so right now i am going to be doing the simple ones i have heard, first. I am doing Vinegar, dish soap, lemon juice, and lime juice. So how long should i have those sit for?