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Moderator
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Ok good thx. Let's see what the collective of others things about this one. I'm still skeptical, but would be happy to be proven wrong.  "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Something just doesn't seem natural about this.
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Pillar of the Community
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Of course, Spence, I understand the skepticism. When I took the pictures I was frustrated by the difficulty of capturing the little details like the alloy mix visible in the side of the coin. I definitely realize that it looks a little fishy in the pictures, but I can promise that in hand the alloy layers are very visible.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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If it's all over the coin, this would qualify more as a defective planchet overall.
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Valued Member
United States
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Seems like there would be more than one coin of this nature if the alloy mix was wrong.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Hm, wasn't expecting it to be as controversial as it seems to be. Certainly above my pay grade to say with certainty one way or the other. Perhaps Mike Diamond will see the post and weigh in!
I can't speak to every coin ever struck, jpgrajek, so it may well be that there are others out there like it!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I agree it is probably plated or painted. What you are seeing is where the plating or paint is flaking off.
Laminations tend to be somewhat linear, whereas partially retained struck through's can be more random in shape(if I remember Mike's previous comments correctly).
I found a memorial recently that was much easier to see the plating/painting.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It looks like a peeling off an old layer of a foreign substance on the coin, the reverse of the coin very much exhibits that.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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How do you guys account for the same texture/consistency running through the side of the planchet in that case? Seeing a lot of the same suggestions, but no one has given a very satisfying explanation for it being .1 grams underweight or the visible alloy mixture problems in the side of the planchet.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Coin has been through a hot fire. When you heat up copper the impurities come to the surface when it cools slag forms on the outside then it flakes off. could have happened in the 50 or 60 then circulated for a while.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I am thinking at one point someone had painted it and it's pealing off do to corrosion Occurring under the paint. It's odd the DATE looks like something you would see on a zinc rot date.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The fire explanation is plausible, but I can assure you it's not paint. As noted, it's 3.00 grams and the same consistency visible on the surface can be seen riddling the planchet on the sides of the coin. 100% not paint or plating.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Just a coin's natural wear over time can reduce it's weight by .1 grams easily. Wheat cents typically weigh 2.9-3.1 grams, and even 2.8 grams is not uncommon. Like stated by others, I feel this is more of a foreign substance issue than a lamination. Keep hunting!
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Collector of U.S. Coins, Varieties, and Colonial Coinage
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Looking at the thickness of the Coating or what ever it is at the bottom of the reverse in-between the wheat stems it's to thick to be copper peal and it looks more like corrosion of something added to the coin. I can see you'll need to send it in to get the answer your looking for good luck.
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