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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;desertgem, post: 1136113, member: 15199&quot;]Many cents were plated in the 1960s, mostly 1943 steel cents with copper, but also 1943 cents were &quot;replated&quot; with zinc to make them look BU rather than the circulated or rusty condition. It is not too hard to imagine someone replating a copper cent with zinc. It is done in many chemistry classes. In the coin magazines of the 60s, there were ads for sending in your zinc cents and they would plate them with copper to make a rarity. You have to send in your own coins for legal reasons, so they couldn&#039;t be accused of selling fakes themselves.</p><p>Since the weight was that of a copper cent, and the edge was copper, that is what it probably is.</p><p><br /></p><p>Jim[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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