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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vitagen, post: 288093, member: 10636&quot;]I believe this is an ACTUAL error, BECAUSE, when zinc burns, it almost always becomes very rough and irritated. For a science expirement, I&#039;ve placed both a 1990 penny and a 1982 penny (more copper) on a torch and both came out completely different from those original photos.</p><p>The 1990 penny was completely melted into a ball of metal within seconds (seconds!), while the 1982 penny didn&#039;t melt as much, but it broke apart on the rim and molten zinc spilled out.&nbsp; Zinc obvious melts at lower temperatures than copper, from what I saw.&nbsp; Still, this may not be true, but it was for the expirement I did.</p><p>I&#039;d have to melt 100s of pennies of both pre-1985 and lower (correct?) and from the 1990s to get an accurate result based on average.</p><p><br /></p><p>Still, it&#039;s possible the penny originally depicted in this post was melted on a very hot burner.&nbsp; An open flame burns different than a heated surface sometimes.&nbsp; That is, one is a literally exposed to open flame AND heat, while the other is only exposed to heat. </p><p><br /></p><p>The only problem I have with the burner is that this penny&#039;s luster appears to be the same on both the normal surface and the damaged surface.&nbsp; Could have possibly been re-plated, but I just see some of that &quot;authentic grit&quot; and &quot;tone&quot; on it still...so I&#039;m going with authentic.</p><p><br /></p><p>Besides, that missing chunk from the obverse is a VERY CLEAN cut.&nbsp; Hard to produce such a clean cut by burning the coin, because a burn of any type would also melt the surrounding details EASILY.&nbsp; And tooling the coin would leave scratches and other obvious clues.&nbsp; Polishing the cut area would also fail to reproduce the authentic luster, because that would only leave a mirror in place of the cut.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Though the reverse looks a lot closer to have just been burnt with a torch, make sure to look at the rim around there as well.&nbsp; That&#039;s madness that the rim still remains!&nbsp; A torch would 99.9% of the time, Melt that rim as well...no question.</p><p><br /></p><p>Either this is a REALLY good fake, or just plain...not a fake.</p><p>How&#039;s that?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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