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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 26095, member: 669&quot;]Welcome to the forum Ken.&nbsp; As pointed out in several of the earlier postings on this thread, the current composition of Lincoln cents is copper-plated zinc, and what you are describing sounds exactly like one that has lost its copper plating through chemical or electorlitic means.</p><p><br /></p><p>To verify that the&quot; steel&quot; edge isn&#039;t, just try to pick the coin up with a magnet.</p><p><br /></p><p>-That compostion has been used since mid-1982, and the coins weigh 2.5g instead of the former 3.11g.&nbsp; If the weight of your coin varies substantially from 2.5g, you have something worth further investigation.&nbsp; If not, you have something worth exactly 1¢.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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