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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Just Carl, post: 115372, member: 4552&quot;]Those have been one of my favorite Lincolns to collect. I&#039;ve probably got a few thousand of them. Everytime I&#039;ve seen one it went into a plastic tube to be checked later for which one it is. Since there are both large and small dates, copper ( not Bronze ) and then the flimsey new Copper-Plated Zinc. The wewight is very noticable when using a balance beam scale but not to noticable with out. The colors are about the same if the wear is about the same. Some of the early Copper-Plated ones did have a bubbly finish but many, many do not and look exactly the same as the earlier, heavier versions of Copper, Tin and Zinc mixtures. Even using a senitive for chemicals type balance scale is&nbsp; tricky since the coins on both sides must be of equal or approximate wear. Now as for incapsulated ones that would even make the difference more of a problem. Since thier may be so slight differences in materials due to when and by whom a coin is put into a slab there may also be a weight difference. Good question. If you look at enough of those you&#039;ll eventually realize that as the dies were used the quality apparently changed on both types. So good luck. </p><p>Like I said I&#039;ve got thousands of them and not easy to figure out which is which.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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