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<p>[QUOTE="rascal, post: 1562464, member: 29239"]I heard hoofbeats last Sunday morning and a big 12 point point buck nearly ran me over. LOL </p><p>I never could understand why anyone would want to treat a cent with a zinc coating , I suppose they have their own reasons. if someone wants a zinc cent it would probably be easier to remove the thin copper plating with a acid solution to reveal the solid zinc cent. IMO.</p><p><br /></p><p>not long ago I had some junk steel cents and some nasty looking copper cents and put them together in a cleaning solution I made up with different acids trying to clean them. after a few hours I removed them from the solution and the steel cents had a nice shiny copper plating on them from the copper off the copper cents . coins have always been experimented with in many different ways.</p><p><br /></p><p>doing experiments can sometimes help us to learn how to identify fake and altered coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="rascal, post: 1562464, member: 29239"]I heard hoofbeats last Sunday morning and a big 12 point point buck nearly ran me over. LOL I never could understand why anyone would want to treat a cent with a zinc coating , I suppose they have their own reasons. if someone wants a zinc cent it would probably be easier to remove the thin copper plating with a acid solution to reveal the solid zinc cent. IMO. not long ago I had some junk steel cents and some nasty looking copper cents and put them together in a cleaning solution I made up with different acids trying to clean them. after a few hours I removed them from the solution and the steel cents had a nice shiny copper plating on them from the copper off the copper cents . coins have always been experimented with in many different ways. doing experiments can sometimes help us to learn how to identify fake and altered coins.[/QUOTE]
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