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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 51718, member: 669&quot;]There&#039;s nothing unusual in your pictures, and on my screen the coin appears to have a normal color.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There were no steel cents minted in 1999, but since 1982 Lincoln cents have been minted from copper plated zinc, and occasionally the planchet is poorly plated.&nbsp; Also, sometimes people use chemical means to remove the copper plating, leaving a zinc coin which is only marginally lighter than the normal 2.5g.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>From what I can see in your picture, the coin doesn&#039;t have the surface appearance of an unplated zinc cent, so you might want to check out<a href="http://home.att.net/~lfretzin/LbAlchemy.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://home.att.net/~lfretzin/LbAlchemy.htm" rel="nofollow"> this site</a>&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> and learn about one of many ways to alter the appearance of a coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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