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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Fropa, post: 298667, member: 837&quot;]I don&#039;t have a scale that weighs to the 10th or 100th of a gram. The scale I do have weighed all the copper cents I tried at 4 grams and all the zinc cents at 2 grams. This one also weighed in at 2 grams so I think it&#039;s a zinc cent. Now is there a way to tell for sure if it&#039;s been plated? It does have areas of wear on the highest points of Lincoln and the memorial where the silver is more dull but with no copper showing.</p><p><br /></p><p>This person has sold 1 missing copper cent and has this one for sale on ebay <a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/1982-D-Slabbed-Lincoln-Cent-Missing-Copper-Layer_W0QQitemZ320186696710QQihZ011QQcategoryZ31373QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cgi.ebay.com/1982-D-Slabbed-Lincoln-Cent-Missing-Copper-Layer_W0QQitemZ320186696710QQihZ011QQcategoryZ31373QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem" rel="nofollow">http://cgi.ebay.com/1982-D-Slabbed-Lincoln-Cent-Missing-Copper-Layer_W0QQitemZ320186696710QQihZ011QQcategoryZ31373QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem</a></p><p>This one looks very dark and rough compared to mine and made me wonder if this is what a zinc cent would look like before the copper layer was added or would the pressure from the minting process make it be smooth and shiny like the one I found?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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