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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;physics-fan3.14, post: 3188486, member: 19165&quot;]No, [USER=92083]@JCro57[/USER] , that is incorrect. There has been a whole lot of speculation and very little actual fact reported in this thread.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1943 cents were definitely not galvanized. Galvanized planchets were evaluated by the Mint and they found they were completely unacceptable.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reference you desire is &quot;United States Pattern and Experimental Pieces of WWII&quot; by Roger Burdette. He goes into great detail about all of the experiments to design the new coins, and gives detailed technical descriptions of the final result.</p><p><br /></p><p>On page 106, he describes the final choice:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;A thin zinc coating had to be applied by electroplating - not dipping - and the coating thickness was specified as 0.0005 inches.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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