Opened My First Coin Rolls Today!

Replated* sorry. Autocorrect.

I'm not sure about the weight. My good steel cent is in my type set album and I don't want to take it out and risk damaging it to weigh it in comparison to the replated one. But once you get used to seeing them it is fairly easy to tell them apart. I'd highly suggest saving your coin so as a reference piece.

Here is the picture I promised. The top coin is a steel cent in circulated condition. Most look like that nowadays. The one on the bottom left is an nice quality cent that has not been replated. In other words, it is what you are looking for. The one on the right is the plated coin. It is hard to put into words exactly what is different, but it seems more glossy and has a yellowish tinge, whereas the real one has a solid gray/silver cast. I hope this helps!

I do see the yellow tinge and I'm assuming my coin was recently done as I don't see the yellow yet. It was hard to get a good picture of it due to no camera other than my phone. But I'll for sure keep it just to compare. Most of the ones I got were like the top one.and one in between the top and left one.

So far, Jaobler, I'm going to keep most, if not all, the coins until I get good at recognizing certain grades/types.

Thanks again for all the feedback!