Why would anyone pay all this money . http://www.ebay.com/itm/LOT-1615-ER...zdIAAOqLp3n9dGw14wwhc%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc When you could get one from Mr. Potter for this price . http://koinpro.tripod.com/Brass.htm
The coin is nothing more then this : Why all the uproar about the 1983 and 1985 brass cents? There were brass-plated cents struck in 1983 and 1985 but not brass cents. There is a very important distinction between a brass and a brass-plated cent. A brass cent would have been struck on a solid brass planchet - 95 percent copper and 5 percent zinc. Beginning in 1982, the cent planchets were changed to a copper-plated zinc. In both 1983 and 1985 batches of the coins got overheated in processing and the zinc core bled into the copper plating, turning it into a brass plating. One source on the Internet states that some 1983 cents were struck on "copper" planchets but offers no proof.
↑ If I am not mistaken, that first one is a copper cent, otherwise why would it weigh 3.1 g The coin is nothing more then this : Why all the uproar about the 1983 and 1985 brass cents? There were brass-plated cents struck in 1983 and 1985 but not brass cents. There is a very important distinction between a brass... The point is that a plated cent...copper or brass...should weigh 2.5 g (I think) while according to the balance in the picture, this one weighs 3.1 g which is the weight of a pre-1982 cent.
