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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;desertgem, post: 3242761, member: 15199&quot;]Check the edges. The coin metal was originally punched from zinc coated steel sheet metal. The obverse and reverse were still zinc coated, but the edge would show a duller colored middle of steel core. As the zinc slowly oxidized after 1943, many sent even uncirculated coins out to be re-plated. This became a no-no later on, but by them there were multiple thousand that had done it. The process also plated the steel edge to bright zinc, so if the edges are the same as the front and back, they are reprocessed. If dull maybe original. Jim[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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