Cool Lincoln Roll Finds (From Bank Rolls) - Post Yours!

Found these today. They were a nice surprise!

Rackster: I took photos through a microscope. I think it was under 40x magnification, but the lighting is really bad. I'll post in the US coin forum later.
I also soaked the 1912 in acetone. Some of the green around the "ONE" and the wheats came off but the rest is being really stubborn.
Haven't sorted through the pennies again. I'm tired of looking at copper. I'll be looking at nickels for a while.

OkCents82: Is that lustre? That's very nice if it is! Never seen a red Wheat cent before.

shadz: I have one too. Too bad because it has a curious toning pattern, around the raised parts but not on them.

Is this what is called cameo?

I also found a slightly off centre Zincoln (the white spot appears to be tippex or something of the sort). There's something around the last 9 in the photo, but I can't see what it is. Oh astigmatism.
On the back the "OF", the left of the "A" in AMERICA, and the "US" in "PLURIBUS" seem really thin. Never seen anything like it before.




By the way, new variety: Screaming Zincoln!

Of course not. Just kidding Happy very late April Fools!

Nice finds everyone!

Searched 3 boxes over the weekend. Pulled 45 Wheaties and the only pre 1940 was a single 1938.

The small patch below LIBERTY is copper coloured. I can't see anything other than that although I don't have a good magnifier or microscope. If the plating was removed I would expect it to be underweight by about 0.04g although perhaps the original coin was more than 2.50g and this is within mint tolerances?

I found this information which explains everything except the warping and the edge: "Cyanide ions wrap themselves tightly around copper ions in solution, forming what's known as a complex. They do not, on the other hand, care much for zinc at all. In a concentrated solution of potassium cyanide copper is rendered slightly more vulnerable to oxidation than zinc. Under just the right conditions (cool temperatures and gentle agitation) the oxidizer potassium persulfate, combined with concentrated potassium cyanide, will slowly remove copper without touching zinc."

Apparently this is quite hard to do but it is likely the most plausible explanation. Or perhaps the plating was never applied?

Rackster: Well I'm not seeing 1-cent pieces being circulated anymore, so I guess the only chance I'll find them is by roll hunting, and I'm unlikely to find very many either. I'll keep an eye for them, but I don't think I'll miss it since I keep US cents pre-1983.
The Zincolns will be part of my spending money when I go to the States next month.
And thanks for correcting me, I thought MAD and off centre was the same. What do you mean by "when the obverse design is in omers"?

o-train: When you say the coin is warped I think that the coin was subject to some force. It might have gotten thinned a little in the centre, where the metal was pushed out, so it makes the coin appear a little taller.
Also maybe someone did the "silver penny" electrolysis. I find it impossible that the public can possess and use KCN (likely safely since they lived to circulate the coin). Can you see if it might have been the case in your coin?

Shadz - not all Zincolns are bad...yet!! Glad you have a dump site that wont charge you. I've been rolling all along, so it's not that bad...but cuts into CRHing time.

Slur - I appeared victimized by the touch pad on the computer and the palms of my hands. Anyway, the greater or more exaggerated the MAD error, the better. If part of the obverse design is missing, the more the better. Collectors look for that.

At the start of a pick and I came across this -



I've been looking for high grade S Mint LMCs and these came out of one roll - have to assume these were part of a collection that was cashed in. The 1982 D LD is zinc (see shadz, not allllll bad) and the first found CRHing. The roll also produced another 1974 S, but it wasn't choice like the others.