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Message:: [QUOTE="satootoko, post: 158683, member: 669"]Your posting really has me confused.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> <ol> <li>The WW II steel cents had no copper content that could show through surface scratches on the zinc plating.</li> <li>No US coin has ever left the Mint with a painted finish to be chipped at</li> <li>I'm not familiar enough with cent varieties to know whether there is a known '44 with a repunched date s/S, but I do know that repunched mintmarks ("RPM") and double dies ("DDO" or "DDR") are two entirely different errors created by different causes</li> <li>The only numismatic reference I am familiar with for the letters "SSCA" are the descriptor used by PCGS (and possibly other graders) for coins recovered from the wreck of the SS Central America.</li> </ol>That shiny appearance you describe is frequently (but not always) the result of a procedure called "reprocessing", in which steelies are cleaned of any rust and then replated with fresh zinc. <img src="http://boards.collectors-society.com/images//graemlins/893naughty-thumb.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]