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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roger W Burdette, post: 3188720, member: 88504&quot;]Cheap steel for 1943 cents was coated with zinc by several processes, depending on which company was supplying planchets. Although the Mint specified thickness of zinc, the reality was that no one much cared. Steel strip was electroplated, hot dipped, hot rolled, heated and sprayed with molten zinc then rolled and just about any inexpensive process available. This inconsistency was also why the weight of 1943 cents was increased by 1-grain. This allowed extreme over- and under-weight planchets to be accepted as legal coins. (I did not got into a lot of detail in the book because production cents was not part of the core subject.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope this helps.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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