Some of them look like they are considered cleaned All wheat cents, excluding 1943 and some rare 1944 issues, are made out of 95% copper with 5% tin and zinc.
It looks like most are circulated coins, a couple look AU and maybe uncirculated but the rest look worn, but cleaned to look uncirculated.
They look plated to me. And for the OP, if you bought these as an "uncirculated roll" I strongly suggest not ever buying any sort of roll of coins from anyone especially if they use the term "unsearched". I've spent plenty of money proving that there is no such thing as an unsearched roll.
As others have stated, I don't see them as mint state (or uncirculated) either. One or two of the ones photographed might be AU (about/almost uncirculated), but not uncirculated. Really can't tell if they are plated or not, but to be fair, you can purchase "uncirculated rolls" from REPUTABLE sellers. As for "unsearched" rolls, yea those are trash 99.99% of the time. Better to stay away from those in my opinion.
Weren't the 1944 and 1945 wheaties made of a 95% copper/5% zinc composition? Those were the ones made on old shell casings.
The ones from the war years could be considered brass by most collectors. They are certainly of a different composition that the rest.
Yes, and they still do make the gold plated common date ones. Usually they are freebies when you order one of their specials from the inserts they put in other peoples sales catalogs. I have several of them, all common dates.
