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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 4895383, member: 105098&quot;]Oh, and Ken Potter is the only one selling those things also. it&#039;s not common in the hobby at all as a &quot;collectible&quot;. I&#039;m only aware of PCI ever grading and encapsulating them, and only so Ken Potter could sell them on his site.</p><p><br /></p><p>this can happen any year or mintmark since 1982 since switching to the copper plated zinc planchet, any time the copper plating solution gets enough zinc contamination in it from plating zinc planchets, as it&#039;s used it gets more &quot;brassy&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>there is no &quot;list&quot; because it happens to some every single year, what ken potter is selling is the ones he had PCI attribute as that to sell to people.</p><p><br /></p><p>the mint doesn&#039;t make the planchets, so it&#039;s not a mint error.&nbsp; if you want, you can buy one of Ken Potters that he has for sale, but I doubt you will get any of the current 3rd party graders to slab your finds as &quot;brass plated planchet&quot;, and PCI as far as I know is now out of business,,, I think.</p><p><br /></p><p>people been trying to sell them under all kinds of names since 1982, &quot;yellow Jacket&quot;, &quot;golden sun cent&quot; are two I can think of off the top of my head.</p><p><br /></p><p>Look if it&#039;s 1983 or newer and weighs 3.1g, you got a serious find, these things weighing 2.5g&nbsp; are relatively common occurrences and pre-minting problems in quality control from the planchet supplier.</p><p><br /></p><p>If they sell on ebay, they sell for less than what Ken Potter sells them for, people list them for what they paid for them from him, hoping to make their money back.</p><p><br /></p><p>My opinion it&#039;s a cent, it&#039;s worth 1 cent. now if it were steel, and zinc got into the copper to make it brass, you&#039;d likely have something collectible there maybe, but this is literally the planchet maker being lazy about cleaning and changing their plating solution.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve gotten almost golden toned cents just by leaving new ones in an altoids tin for a year or so. I believe the tin gives the copper a fresh bronze quality in appearance only.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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