1998-D Brass plated penny

jfortune

I know the Philidelphia mint produced brass plated pennies around this time period, but have never seen one from the Denver mint. Has anyone seen one, or is anyone aware if the Denver mint produced a run of these in 1998?

lcutler

The blanks all come from the same source. Sometimes the copper for plating picks up a little zinc from continued use while plating the zinc cores, this results in a brassy plating. It can happen at any mint, any year.