Just a large date normal die zinc cent. How can I tell it is a zinc cent? Note the rough surface on the coin. At that time they were having this issue on the zinc cents. After some time, the realized it was an issue with zinc dust that was plated over. They discovered they need to rinse the planchets better, before plating. (These planchets are from an outside source and was not made by the mint process) Steps in coin creations on zinc cents.
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