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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 6881140, member: 105098&quot;]Definitely plated, because that&#039;s what it is, galvanized steel with a zinc coating. </p><p>Now we could argue that it hasn&#039;t been reprocessed if you like, but the coin clearly has been plated because that&#039;s how they were made. </p><p><br /></p><p>BUT, the mint galvanized the sheet of steel with zinc, then they punched out the blanks. this is why the edge is bare steel on non-reprocessed steel cents, and how you tell if a steel cent is reprocessed. </p><p><br /></p><p>if the edge is silver like the rest of the coin, it&#039;s reprocessed. but either way the coin is in fact &quot;plated&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p>Lincoln cents since 1983 are copper coated zinc. they are punched out of the zinc sheet and then plated. the edge is not exposed, but that isn&#039;t the way they did it with the steel cents.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, if you please, some pictures of the coin edge would be useful in determining if this is a reprocessed steel cent.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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