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What Causes A Penny To Be This Dark

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Penny looks clean black no rot or anything. Just got this from my change at the gas station. I never seen a clean discolored penny like this. I can't do any close up pictures until I get home.

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Looks like someone was bored in class so took a sharpie to it. Some kind of paint/marker or something.
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I can't acetone it till later at home. It caught my eye bcuz it's really clean
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Was it in a fire?
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Snatched , is that you hand or a glove?
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Looks like fire/cigarette ash
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yeah that's dark alright. some kind of reaction to the outside elements.
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Smell like smoke?
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It has a rose gold color, I used acetone for 2 days, 1 day wasn't good enough it stayed black.

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