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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2135203, member: 66&quot;]There are cents plated in &quot;brass&quot; every year.&nbsp; It&#039;s just a matter of using the plating solution too long.&nbsp; It gets contaminated with some dissolved zinc with every batch of planchets plated.&nbsp; That zinc also plates out on the coin.&nbsp; Eventually there is enoigh zinc in the solution that the plating starts taking on a yellow color.</p><p><br /></p><p>And the plating is done by an outside contractor, they aren&#039;t really a mint error.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes cents exist that missed the plating process, but when new they have the same cartwheel luster that a new copper plated cent has.&nbsp; Once the coin circulates a litte and the surface oxidizes or corrodes, it becomes impossible to tell if the coin started out as an unplated cent, or if it has been zinc plated, or had the copper plating stripped off.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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