Not An Error Coin, But No Forum For Environmental Damaged Coins. (2010 D Cent)

So I will post my 2010 D LSC here.

This coin was found in phoenix AZ in the hot summer of 2020 in the month of late July.

I was working up on a white vinyl rooftop of a commercial building. The roofing material was so hot tha tmy feet were burning right through my work boots.

Looking down while I was running some EMT conduit, I see a penny and pick it up. (yes, I pick up every single one I spot.) I immediately had to throw it back down into a shaded area because it burnt my fingers a bit.

I happened to look back to where the penny had been and I saw that it had sunk into the vinyl roofing material.

I went to the penny I had thrown and picked it up again (after it had cooled a bit). The coin had fallen reverse up and had become dished out. It was deformed as it got so hot is was beginning to soften and slowly turn into a bowl shaped coin.

The reverse side saw the sun for so long the Zinc is showing through and the obverse just darkened to almost black.

Can we say that phoenix got hot enough to melt a zinc cent? I say yes...

Here are the pictures:






Edited to fix a typo on the date.

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