Yellowish/Brassy Colored Lincoln Cents

The only plated cents prior to 1982 that I know of are the zinc plated steel war coins. Any other platings should qualify as PMD or post mint alteration.

Good to know, thanks guys.
Gotta admit though, they did a great job on these 3 coins.
No runs, drips or errors :)
Great looking color just the same.

My pics./scans never show the color right anyway.
Ian, if a had seen your reply here earlier I would of tossed
one in the mailer with your Ike before I sealed it up.
I'll toss you one next time.

I have normally have a thick sheet of matte black paper attached to the lid of my scanner for that reason and also because it minimizes bleed through when scanning newspaper and other material with printing on both sides. The bright white scanner lid can cause color distortion and unwanted reflections. Basically, you only want to gather light sent from the lamp directly to the subject and reflected directly back to the sensor for maximum image fidelity. I put it there with a few small pieces of double sided tape so it can be easily removed for those occasions that warrant a white background.

I always scan coins at 7200 DPI, just below the optical limit of my scanner. Unfortunately the HP software does introduce some anomalies that aren't coming from the scanner but they are minimal and tolerable. I save the file in a raw format like BMP or TIFF to preserve all of the information. I then use that image (which is color and gray-scale correct) as the source for all other images I create, reducing DPI and converting to lossy file types (like JPEG) and enhancing as desired. That way, I don't have to rescan the coin itself if I need a new image, I just grab the huge original scan and work from it. 7200 DPI works out to about 3.5 microns per pixel and features as small as 35 microns can be resolved fairly well. For reference, an average E.Coli bacterium is around 3 by 1 microns in the body so one can hide in a single pixel. The transistors in the newest Intel CPUs are 0.032 microns long and you can hide dozens of them behind a single bacterium. At 7200 DPI, a cent is about 5400 pixels across.