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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 7810416, member: 105098&quot;]original steel wheat cents were made from a sheet of steel that was galvanized with zinc, and then the blanks punched out, so the edge on originals will not be coated in Zinc and be bare steel. </p><p><br /></p><p>once they were punched out, you&#039;d need to &quot;reprocess&quot; them by electroplating or some other process, but the zinc will be on the edge of the coin also since it&#039;s been punched out already.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as I can tell, of the surviving steel cents, probably the majority of them have been reprocessed, and a whole lot of the ones that haven&#039;t been are corroded to some extent, but with enough effort, a person can still find really nice original examples for a collection without too much of a cost or issue to do it. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Honestly I think this particular one was a home job done with a can of cold galvanizing spray and not electroplated.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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