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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Rick Stachowski, post: 2843848, member: 42872&quot;]The coin is nothing more then this :</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Why all the uproar about the 1983 and 1985 brass cents?</b></p><p>There were brass-plated cents struck in 1983 and 1985 but not brass cents. There is a very important distinction between a brass and a brass-plated cent. A brass cent would have been struck on a solid brass planchet - 95 percent copper and 5 percent zinc. Beginning in 1982, the cent planchets were changed to a copper-plated zinc. In both 1983 and 1985 batches of the coins got overheated in processing and the zinc core bled into the copper plating, turning it into a brass plating. One source on the Internet states that some 1983 cents were struck on &quot;copper&quot; planchets but offers no proof.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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