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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 3601888, member: 27832"]Interesting question, but I've been led to believe that there <i>isn't</i> any luster under the copper layer -- that the flow lines don't get impressed that deeply.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don't know of any accessible ways to strip off copper without attacking zinc, but I understand that it's possible. If I could manage one of those methods, I'd start looking for Zincolns from very late-stage dies (deep and coarse flow lines), and see for myself what's under there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 3601888, member: 27832"]Interesting question, but I've been led to believe that there [I]isn't[/I] any luster under the copper layer -- that the flow lines don't get impressed that deeply. I don't know of any accessible ways to strip off copper without attacking zinc, but I understand that it's possible. If I could manage one of those methods, I'd start looking for Zincolns from very late-stage dies (deep and coarse flow lines), and see for myself what's under there.[/QUOTE]
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