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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Yes, do post your zinc rot pennies, if they are bad as mine or worse. I don't even bother looking for a doubled die with this one. Lol. Wouldn't be able to tell. Anyone got any proactive for this Lincoln Cent? I think if there was ever a thing called struck through water, this is what it would look like. But yeah this is a bit extreme.. lol let me hear your jokes on what you think this looks like to you!! 
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Valued Member
Canada
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
939 Posts |
I still think it looks cool :D I keep it cause it's conversational!
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
12477 Posts |
In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020 In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020 In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Now that's Nasty lol. Yuuuucky. Lol. You can't even spend those where I work lol
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Those coins would make a good lucky dip for a metal detectorist if they were buried, and detected 100 years later. You would have to be extremely lucky to find them! 
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Moderator
 United States
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It is a copper plating issue. Debris gets trapped between the copper plating and the zinc core. John1 
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Valued Member
United States
261 Posts |
I have seven rolls of fountain LMC's in the same condition. I never dump where I pick up coin but I spoke with the head teller and told her about these coins. The customer put these rotten cents in their nickel, dime and quarter rolls too. I lost a few bucks on that pickup.
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Pillar of the Community
Norway
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You can always try to sell them as very rare mint errors on ebay of course. A lot of people do so. 
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Humourist ! 
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Valued Member
United States
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It's the very rare acne Lincoln coin :)
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Quote: It's the very rare acne Lincoln coin :) For 82's and 83's it would be the very common acne Lincoln coin.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Quote: lol let me hear your jokes on what you think this looks like to you!! It looks looks like something that would be in poor taste for me to joke about. 1982 was the first year the mint started plating zinc blanks. As John1 noted, it's thought many of them were not clean enough to permit proper adherence of the plating. I agree with Conder101, the first couple years were the worst. Unfortunately though, the quality of the plating has improved only slightly since. Quote: do post your zinc rot pennies 
Edited by CoinMasters 10/07/2017 9:38 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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This is a crappy job of Copper Plating. These years were the worst for Copper Plating since the Mint had trouble with debris getting trapped during Copper Plating. CoinMasters, that's a severe case of Zinc Rot right there.
Errers and Varietys.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It kind of jumps out right at ya, doesn't it? It makes me want to wash my hands just looking at it.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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It does jump out right at me. If I touched it, I would wash my hands also.
Errers and Varietys.
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