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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JCro57, post: 3195051, member: 92083&quot;]I believe your 1961 actually could be. It still has a degree of Mint luster which it needs to have, and the darker tone is uniform throughout. I vote &quot;yes&quot; to the 1961 example. As for the 1959 nickel, I just can&#039;t tell.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, there actually are 1958 Black Beauties as well as other dates. 1959 had a relatively large number of them, and so many come to understand the term as being exclusively for that date.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes the over-annealing actually draws out the copper in addition to darkening it, leaving a red haze on the surface like this 1997 example.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]825578[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It can get even more extreme by leaving a copper-colored crust/shell in spots on the surface (though some feel it is actually copper dust leftover from annealed cents that adhere to them. &quot;Sintered&quot; means a solid mass that formed from powder after heating without liquification. However, cents are no longer annealed since 1982 as the zinc core is soft enough to strike, and the planchets aren&#039;t produced at the Mint anymore. Thus the &quot;copper dust&quot; theory can&#039;t explain how coins after 1982 get copper spotting when improperly annealed). Below is a 1960 example where a copper shell formed on the obverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]825576[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And below is an even more extreme case. This 1968 example is the thick shell which foramed over the top of a nickel that actually became detached after it was struck, and looks as if it were struck on a defective cent planchet.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]825590[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]825591[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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