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Message:: [QUOTE="Pickin and Grinin, post: 8637799, member: 73995"]Took me a while to find the right reference.[USER=73266]@Hommer[/USER] These cents were in either the CPG or strike it rich.Paul Hayward New Member  (CT)An explanation posted in Numismaster 7/29/09 stated the following; "There were brass-plated cents struck in 1983 and 1985 but not brass cents. There is a very important distinction between a brass and a brass-plated cent. A brass cent would have been struck on a solid brass planchet - 95 percent copper and 5 percent zinc. Beginning in 1982, the cent planchets were changed to a copper-plated zinc. In both 1983 and 1985 batches of the coins got overheated in processing and the zinc core bled into the copper plating, turning it into a brass plating." More recently, the list of specimens having this appearance has been expanded to include the dates 83, 85D, 97, 97D and 98. It will be interesting to see whether these will be considered composition varieties or errors when all the dust finally settles... - PH Paul Hayward, Mar 27, 2017#5+ QuoteReply (Cited from: <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/brass-lincoln-cent.93024/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/brass-lincoln-cent.93024/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/brass-lincoln-cent.93024/</a>)[/QUOTE]