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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 7304187, member: 10461&quot;]I don&#039;t, particularly since I don&#039;t do the rolling myself- the contractor does.&nbsp; She (Cindy Calhoun) does offer some color treatments- a kind of stain- to make the design stand out better, but as I recall, I did not opt for those.&nbsp; I do think I had the Type 1 Wheat cents cleaned first, if I remember correctly.</p><p><br /></p><p>In any event, you never want to use <i>Zincolns </i>for elongating.&nbsp; You need good pre-1982 copper cents for best results.&nbsp; Zinc cents are no good, because the zinc core will show through in spots when the thin copper plating is rolled out and stretched.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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