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Well thank you all for your participation in the question error or not. It's another variety to search for in the long list of treasures waiting to be discovered.

There is a reply to this thread from Mr Mike Meenderink. He has given us all a very thorough, scientific, explanation about the mixes. It's not the color solely, that makes these coins "errors". They do have a brass plate, the problem is that it doesn't take much of a change to the mix, to change it from copper, to bronze, or brass. That's where the problem exists in my humble opinion. They seem to have a problem controlling the mix, Or the aftermath from the mix, to the cleaning, and the washing and drying getting chemicals from one step to the next and soon you have a Frankenstein. In my opinion.

Here is one thing that concerns me about grading these modern LMC's. That some where down the road, someone else will make a stink about, if the moderns can be graded for the brass plating, they will want the older coins graded as well. There was a write up done by a well known, well let's just leave it there. They mentioned that there wasn't a lot of these brass plated coins and that's what made them gradable errors. I'm willing to bet, that everyone who reads the post, and these comments, has held at least one brass plated LMC in there fingers and went hmmmm, is it worth it. Because let's face it, these coins grading mid ms, are selling for good money. And it's not that hard to find them CRH. So that's my story and I'm sticking to it. In the grand scheme of things, I have two LWC from the fifties that are so gold/ orangish, that I would stop and say to myself, those must be straight brass. From 1909 - present there are literally millions of brass and brass plated coins in circulation. I'm just not sure that there are so few that they could be considered an error or a variety. Nuff said, at the end of the day if you enjoy the hobby, and when you go to bed at night and your satisfied that what you found CRH, what you bought, or what you sold makes you happy. That's what makes the hobby great. We can agree to disagree, and at the end of the day, as long as your satisfied, that's all that matters.

https://coins.ha.com/itm/errors/1997-1c-lincoln-cent-brass-plating-ms64-red-ngc/a/131401-20323.s I'll try to post this one last time I checked it before I copied it, and it worked so I hope it won't let me down now. I guess we will all have our own opinions, and just move on, we don't have the ability to make the change that best suits each of us. So good hunting to all you CRH.

https://coins.ha.com/itm/errors/1997-1c-lincoln-cent-brass-plating-ms64-red-ngc/a/131401-20323.s. This is the link to the Heritage auction. The coin is ngc graded 1997 LMC. I understand that having a plating issue is just that, an issue not an error( in my opinion). But during WWll when the armed forces were taking all the copper, the mints took mega tons of spent brass casings, and made coins with them. I don't understand why now, a brass colored LMC is an error.

I have a 55 ddo-002, it's not worth getting graded in that condition. If it's a die 2 it's hard to see the pics don't do any justice. In that condition it may be worth 75 to 100.

If you want to sell the coin it's worth it to get it graded purely for the authentication. It's ruff so if it were me I would slab.it just to keep it from any more damage and put that in a safe place for my collection. AWESOME FIND IF IT REAL.

Looks like a details grade for artificial toning. Spend it.

I sent a text to H.A I asked them a question about a brass plated zink coin they sold at auction. Why is a brass plated zink coin considered an error, when the coins in the copper, bronze, era, if the mix wasn't quite right kicked out tons of brass coins that are not considered errors. What's the difference?. To date they have not answered my text.