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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 820589, member: 16510&quot;]The bronze, (or brass plated) designation came about because of a certain years, (and 1985 is one of them) were turning up a very different yellow/golden color.&nbsp; The other years are 1983, 97 and 98.&nbsp; They are found in circulating cents regularly (by those that do this crazy thing, me to) on a regular basis.&nbsp; Most often seen is the 1997-D.&nbsp; But unless <b>very different </b>in contrast (from other red cents) they are not worth anything, we find them all the time.</p><p>As far as color goes I have seen, in the past 5 or 6 million cents that I have searched, and found every color cent in the rainbow.&nbsp; I&#039;ve found pink, blue, purple, green, yellow, burgandy, rose, red, black and anything else you can possibly think of.&nbsp; Most were colored that way because of oils from peoples skin, other chemicals, exposed to elements, sun, sulver, - the list goes on and on.</p><p>Ken Potter has and knows exactly what happened with the years I mentioned and can explain these few years Brass Type Cents.&nbsp; He has really good examples for sale with the mints explanation of those certain years.</p><p>Also remember that Brass was the normal composition for cents from 1962 to 1981.&nbsp; Keep searching and you will find tons of different colored cents but most will only be a &quot;somehow toned coin&quot; of little importance.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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