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<p>[QUOTE="lawdogct, post: 115347, member: 1476"]Best way is to weigh them.....though I don't know what kind of weight variances there are in slabs. Beyond that, experience and an eye for details. Most early zinc plated cents are easy to spot because of "bubbles" in the plating that are not there in the copper cents. This bubbling is even evident in bright shinny cents. When minted the copper plating also takes on a kind of "stretched" look thats hard for me to describe, but easy to see.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope this helps.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lawdogct, post: 115347, member: 1476"]Best way is to weigh them.....though I don't know what kind of weight variances there are in slabs. Beyond that, experience and an eye for details. Most early zinc plated cents are easy to spot because of "bubbles" in the plating that are not there in the copper cents. This bubbling is even evident in bright shinny cents. When minted the copper plating also takes on a kind of "stretched" look thats hard for me to describe, but easy to see. Hope this helps.[/QUOTE]
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