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When Good Zinc Goes Bad!

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Hello all, I was searching through my change as I always do and saw this 1983-D cent. I noticed it wasn't normal and got my loupe out and saw all these bubbles. Is this from a bad batch of zinc or is it just the zinc itself when it is flowing as the dies are striking because zinc just isn't famous? All comments welcome.

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I think someone had mentioned that it is air trapped between the layers of lamentation.
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not trapped air. it is bubbles but they got there from a reaction of the zinc being exposed to air more than likely from a break in the copper.
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Bubbles have some thing in them air is a gas? oxygen?
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Try that stuff they advertise on TV. I think it's called Proactive or something like that. Gets rid of Acne and that coin sure looks like a bad skin day. Don't know what causes it but I've got many of them and I put them in a 2x2, lable as a bubbled coin, put away for a rainy day. I've seen them at coin shows for a few dollars.
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