Can anyone explain this to me...1943 d penny looks like extra metal underneath the date.. Not allot... But I'm not sure... And all the 1943 steel pennies weigh 2.79g and stick to magnets. The 1991d penny weighs 2.77g and does not stick to a magnet...
Zincolns weigh around 2.5 grams so your 1991D is a little heavy. Perhaps from some additional plating to make it look like a Steelie...but of course it isn't. Might have ended up being a zinc core, copper flash, nickel plated cent. Nonmagnetic...but looks different.
That's a normal Cent. I don't understand what you are asking. Why are you comparing it with a 1943 Steel Cent?
ok.. That's nice. But then you stated that one stuck to a magnet and the other did not. That's what confused me
I was just stating the only info I had..wasn't really sure what info to put out there.. that's all I had..lol. But I took it to coin shop in town.. He said the copper had just came off and it was zinc...soooo I'mma still keep it cause it's pretty cool looking..
Buddy. There are no 1991 steel cents. The copper plating is missing and the inner zinc is exposed. Zinc is similar in color to steel Also.. Start a new thread if you can. Pictures are needed or your coin does not exist. Have a nice day.
War Time Steel Cents were Zinc plated, so, if the copper clad was missing on a newer Lincoln cent then the zinc core I would think could have the same color as the Zinc glad on the war time cent (minus possible discoloration from age difference) My question would be this, Its my understanding that the metal used by the mint to make the modern cent is purchased by the mint and comes in Giant Rolls of finished (ready to use) sheet metal. The metal is feed into a machine that punches it into plancets, bla..bla..... How does only a few coins from that roll of sheet metal come out without the clad-ing and not hundreds of thousands of them? Or, is it possible that something was done PMD to it like say dipped in something to change its color? I don't know if this is true or not?? but many years ago I had heard the people were dipping 44's in mercury to make them look like a 43 steel?
It's not clad is copper plating. The sheets are actually made of zinc with no copper plating. After the blank planchets are cut out then they are copper plated not cladded. Somehow some of the zinc planchets miss the plating but are still struck (minted). The US Mint does quality control so if they catch the error of the unplated zinc cents they will pull them out. Some do get into circulation though. Also. Copper plated zinc planchets can be altered. Somehow the plating can be removed exposing the inner zinc. There is a way to determine the difference but I can't explain it now. And please.. Everyone.. Stop comparing steel planchets to zinc planchets. Two totally different items. The steel is ferromagnetic and will stick to a magnet the zinc is not ferromagnetic and will not stick to a magnet. There are no modern time cents struck on steel planchets.
