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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 4576164, member: 112&quot;]From what you&#039;re describing, it&#039;s not something new, it&#039;s something quite old, and I believe it&#039;s the same thing as what was done to the coin Insider posted.</p><p><br /></p><p>Quite a few decades ago it was extremely common for many collectors to coat (which can be translated as &quot;paint&quot;) their copper coins with lacquer. This was done to prevent the coins from toning. Now different collectors would use different things like various varnishes, and in more recent years some used polyurethane, but the intent and the purpose was always the same.</p><p><br /></p><p>In today&#039;s world yeah there still are some people who do that, but they are few in number. But there are still a great many coins out there that were coated in the past and their present owners sometimes are unaware the coins are coated, other times they know but simply don&#039;t care.</p><p><br /></p><p>It should be noted that is practice of coating coins with lacquer is not the same as reprocessing steel cents, it&#039;s completely different. When steel cents are/were reprocessed they were given a new coating of zinc to make them appear to be in better shape than they really were by covering up the original and often corroded zinc coating.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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