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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Leadfoot, post: 966451, member: 2972&quot;]The color is all wrong.&nbsp; The fields (particularly the reverse) show evidence of corrosion, yet none is visible on the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Said a bit differently, if you can&#039;t look in your lincoln cent collection and see a color of a large cent or half cent, you should be very suspicious -- and such is the case with the coin pictured here.&nbsp; You just don&#039;t see lincoln cents (pre-83) with this coloration.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will also wager the coin was recolored with deller&#039;s darkener -- it gives formerly corroded coins just this coloration.&nbsp; Don&#039;t believe me?&nbsp; That&#039;s fine...just try it yourself (like I did) and report back what you find.</p><p><br /></p><p>All that said, there&#039;s nothing necessarily wrong with recolored copper -- to the contrary, I own and love several recolored pieces -- but it is what it is.</p><p><br /></p><p>Take care...Mike[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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