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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kurisu, post: 7653437, member: 117063&quot;]To me the word &quot;reprocessed&quot; is odd. I&#039;ve only heard about plated in regards to steel cents. Dipping a steel cent doesn&#039;t have the same effect as say dipping silver...because steel rusts and dipping doesn&#039;t remove rust.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was pretty popular in the early 50&#039;s for kids to take a little mercury and rub a copper penny or a steel one with the liquid mercury to make it &quot;shiny&quot; and white. And some might have remnants of this. Occasionally led was used too.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was more popular at some point to re-plate the pennies often with zinc via electroplating. Easy to do and not so bright that it&#039;s suspicious on the steel cents immediately. Electroplating them with steel is a more tedious process that involves priming the pennies first so usually they were not re-plated with steel.</p><p><br /></p><p>That edge is the dead giveaway...the mint only steel plated (cladded, if that&#039;s a word lol) the faces of the coin and so the edge typically has a slightly different color with sometimes nearly invisible seams where the plating completes. The edge often has a touch of rust or gun metal color that doesn&#039;t quite match the faces. When they are re-plated the edge is exactly as shiny as the faces and there are no apparent seams.</p><p><br /></p><p>Without studying particularly the edge, the electroplated coins can be REALLY convincing! Especially if you haven&#039;t dealt with quite a few original not re-plated steel cents from poor and ok condition all the way up to spectacular conditions...</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]1oEc2ACzkOk[/MEDIA][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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