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<p>[QUOTE="Aleph, post: 3133352, member: 89969"]I would assume it is zinc plated. This is quite an easy thing to do- my friends and I used to do this for school demonstrations. After plating, you can heat the cents and they will turn bright gold colored as the zinc alloys with the copper to form brass. Yours looks old. We usually preferred to do it on shiny cents as the zinc plating would give a shiny surface. Not sure how you can tell if it’s a legit error but I can tell you when I finished with the cents, i dumped them into my change bowl so they eventually went back into circulation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Aleph, post: 3133352, member: 89969"]I would assume it is zinc plated. This is quite an easy thing to do- my friends and I used to do this for school demonstrations. After plating, you can heat the cents and they will turn bright gold colored as the zinc alloys with the copper to form brass. Yours looks old. We usually preferred to do it on shiny cents as the zinc plating would give a shiny surface. Not sure how you can tell if it’s a legit error but I can tell you when I finished with the cents, i dumped them into my change bowl so they eventually went back into circulation.[/QUOTE]
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