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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 470199, member: 66&quot;]Dip steel into a coppersulfate solution and the copper will plate out onto the steel.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know if it would onto the zinc though so you may have to do a acid bath to strip the zinc off first</p><p><br /></p><p>.</p><p>We can get rid of that story.&nbsp; The mint back then had its own foundry and created its own copper alloy ingots , strip and blanks.&nbsp; But for the steel cents the steel strip was produced and galvanized by an outside contractor and then delivered to the mint for blanking.&nbsp; So the steel never got into the mints crucibles.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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