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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numis-addict, post: 1416193, member: 35784&quot;]Quite offten, steel cents turned dark because of the zinc on them. If they have little wear, sometimes people will put a new layer of zinc on it to make it look &quot;better&quot;. I think this is accomplished by electro-plating, but have no experience in doing so. A key diagnostic for a re-plate is that the edge of a re-plated cent will be shiny like the rest of it. The reason behind this is that the sheet of metal the blanks are stamped off of are steel, and the sheet is plated with zinc, because the mint did not have time to plate each blank.&nbsp; Therefore, the edge should be a steel gray on the rim, not like the shiny of the rest of the coin. They also rusted often, and that, along with the darkening, caused the cents to be rejected.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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