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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bones-65, post: 8376076, member: 136030&quot;]War Time Steel Cents were Zinc plated, so, if the copper clad was missing on a newer Lincoln cent then the zinc core I would think could have the same color as the Zinc glad on the war time cent (minus possible discoloration from age difference)</p><p>My question would be this,</p><p>Its my understanding that the metal used by the mint to make the modern cent is purchased by the mint and comes in Giant Rolls of finished (ready to use) sheet metal. The metal is feed into a machine that punches it into plancets, bla..bla.....</p><p>How does only a few coins from that roll of sheet metal come out without the clad-ing and not hundreds of thousands of them?</p><p>Or, is it possible that something was done PMD to it like say dipped in something to change its color?</p><p>I don&#039;t know if this is true or not?? but many years ago I had heard the people were dipping 44&#039;s in mercury to make them look like a 43 steel?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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