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Is this an error .. just found it *** Edited by Staff to Add Year to Title. It's very important to have in the title. *** |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Does the other side look like that also?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Interesting. Would like to see a pic of the obverse. Initial reaction is a plating issue.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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And after market platting at that, because from the mint it would have been ordinary clad coinage.
I'd suggest you wash your hands carefully after handling that - we've all seen the horror movies.
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( I'm no pro, it's just my humble opinion )
Searched 6.5 +/- Million Cents Since 1971
Edited by John1
01/29/2023 08:53 am
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United States
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Looks more like dried glue to me, as it breaks up a bit on the rim.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I think it is a hail storm. That is why the horse is jumping like that.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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 to the CCF Something added to the coins surface after it left the mint.
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Bedrock of the Community
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does this coin have an obverse? and if so, can we see it please?
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Bedrock of the Community
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I would make a bet that the 'spots' are just air bubbles in some kind of glue or other substance.
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to the Community!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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to the Community. As others have mentioned it is a form of a foreign substance splattered on the surface of the coin, now how it got there or what it really is... doesn't matter because it is a PMD, didn't come out of mint looking that way! 
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New Member
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The black spot on bottom left is just dirty. But no,actually the spots are only on one side and along with that the spots are legit imprinted in the metal Like any lettering would like u run your finger nail across the dots, it's doesn't go in but they are uplifted and your nail gets hung up like any print on the coins year ... sorry don't have better terminology... and also it looks like it's die is smeared or something.. it's not like post mint stuff it's all imprinted
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New Member
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Promise yall it's not some splatter ... it's inconsistency in the metal. Literally imprinted... there is nothing foreign substance wise on it
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Your coin has measles... up to date on vaccinations? waitaminute, wrong reference site...  raised bumps.When it comes to bubbles found on clad coins, they're almost certainly heat-damage, exposed to fire, most likely. While gas bubbles are sometimes seen on clad coins, these always turn out to have been caused by heat applied externally outside the Mint. Occluded gas bubbles should not be confused with blistered plating which it resembles, the latter being an affliction restricted to copper-plated zinc cents. It's possible that the bubbles was caused by some chemical reaction between clad layers, but these generally originate back to post-mint heat damage. |
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The black spot on bottom left is just dirty. But no,actually the spots are only on one side and along with that the spots are legit imprinted in the metal Like any lettering would like u run your finger nail across the dots, it's doesn't go in but they are uplifted and your nail gets hung up like any print on the coins year ... sorry don't have better terminology... and also it looks like it's die is smeared or something.. it's not like post mint stuff it's all imprinted
Promise yall it's not some splatter ... it's inconsistency in the metal. Literally imprinted... there is nothing foreign substance wise on itAnd I can promise you, it's glue, or varnish or something similar. But since it's only on one side, probably glue - the result of somebody's "let's glue a coin to the sidewalk and post the video on YouTube of people trying to pick it up" prank. Somebody eventually came along and prised it off. Looks to me like most of the coin's surface was covered in glue; the little circular features are "holes" in the glue caused by air bubbles. The "chunk of dirt" is probably a piece of the concrete that broke off and stuck to the coin. It looks like metal, rather than glue, because the glue is transparent. Do you see how the lumps up near the top of the coin all have little comet-tail "trails" behind them? That's caused by the glue flowing towards the edge of the coin as the coin was pressed down onto the concrete, carrying bubbles of air with it, smearing the bubbles out into that pattern. In short, it's real easy to create a coin that looks very much like this, with a perfectly normal coin and some glue. I can't imagine any process in the mint that can go wrong in such a way as to create an actual error or variety coin that looks like this. Occam's Razor says therefore your coin is glue, and not an error. You aren't alone in being fooled by glue. You would be surprised at the number of people who come onto the forums, swear black and blue that the weird lumps and bumps on their coin are not glue but actually metal, then they actually test it... and the lumps come right off in acetone or hot water, or can just be picked off with a fingernail. http://goccf.com/t/360146http://goccf.com/t/412823http://goccf.com/t/409610
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