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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 697324, member: 16510&quot;]<b>Many Lincoln&#039;s will show a very yellow brass tone</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Many Lincoln&#039;s will show a very yellow brass tone.&nbsp; I have seen them in 1973 thru 1978, 1985, some in the 1990&#039;s and early sixties.&nbsp; The mint varied the composition 7 times over the course of the series officially and I suspect many more time unofficially.</p><p>In 1962 they went from French Bronze to Brass and I have those that are almost butter yellow.&nbsp; I also opened a roll of 1942&#039;s and they were butter yellow.&nbsp; There is very little differents in the French Bronze composition than the brass, only a bit of tin.</p><p>Whether they are magnitic or not I have no idea, I do not check such things but it sounds like a stretch to me.</p><p>They do, and have come in many different shades of red, yellow, brass even some with blue streaks in them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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