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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hookman, post: 3700252, member: 99642&quot;]The zinc coating was to protect the steel, which as we know, rusts easily. They just didn&#039;t know how bad a zinc coating was.</p><p>You&#039;ve heard of galvanized steel?&nbsp; Galvanization is a form of zinc plating.</p><p>The exact mix of metals in the alloys used for plating things, varies from use to use.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is about galvanization :<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galvanization" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galvanization" rel="nofollow">Galvanization</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galvanization" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galvanization" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galvanization" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galvanization" rel="nofollow">T</a>his is about the zinc coated steel penny (note the info about the 1943 Tin and Antimony penny) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943_steel_cent" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943_steel_cent" rel="nofollow">1943_steel_cent</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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