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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 8105443, member: 112&quot;]Typically information like that is provided, mentioned, in the books that catalog the coins of a given country by giving you the coin&#039;s composition.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I don&#039;t know this for an absolute certainty when it comes to the coins of other countries, but typically when a coin is made of iron or steel it is almost always coated or plated with another metal that more resistant to corrosion than iron or steel is. I would expect that you can find this info in the Krause catalogs.</p><p><br /></p><p>Think of the US steel cents of WWII, they were coated with zinc precisely for that reason.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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