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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mikediamond, post: 4515550, member: 1859&quot;]These are not &quot;cent stock&quot;.&nbsp; Such an error would be impossible as cent stock is raw zinc, and any blank punched from it will lack copper plating.&nbsp; Copper plating is applied after the blanks pass through the upset mill.&nbsp; Furthermore, the US Mint acquires its cent planchets from an outside contractor while it punches its own dime blanks out on site.&nbsp; There is therefore no opportunity for zinc cent strip to pass through a dime blanking press.&nbsp; Finally, the zinc core is exposed along the edge of these coins.&nbsp; The edge of a copper-plated, dime-sized cent blank would be plated-over with copper.&nbsp; All the evidence points to these dimes being struck on cent planchets that were intentionally cut-down (re-sized).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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