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Pillar of the Community
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Bedrock of the Community
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No Blow Hole, just all zinc rot. PMD. This cent is just rotting away into dust. Errers and Varietys.
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I agree as well.  |
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United States
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Looks like all zinc rot to me too.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Thanks for your responses I think with this one I could see it disappearing right in front of my eyes. Every time I pick it up it leaves a small trail of metal shavings.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Zinc rot. Coin may have spent some time buried in occasionally wet soil/dirt.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Alas, the fate of all zincolns that circulate eventually.
Edited by Cujohn
03/16/2025 5:48 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It does make you wonder 100 years from now how many MS cents there will be .
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I don't even know if you could spend that!  |
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United States
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geeze, that is some terrible and excessive zinc rot.
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Pillar of the Community
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Scorching case of Zinc Rot man. That cent should be quarantined or something.
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Pillar of the Community
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At what point does a coin become "not a coin"...Is this a coin...I know it started out a coin.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Yes I'd say this is a coin, NOT!  |
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At what point does a coin become "not a coin"...Is this a coin...I know it started out a coin. This is an easy question to answer. To be included in the definition of "coin", it must be legal tender, or otherwise freely acceptable as money. If we can all agree this ex-coin is no longer "freely acceptable as money" in terms of anyone who was given it as a cent would probably reject it and certainly any automated coin counter would reject it, then we must fall back on the legal-tenderness of the object. Pennies are legal tender, but to qualify as such, they must fall within the legally specified weight range. For zincolns, that weight range is plus or minus 0.1 grams from its specified weight of 2.500 grams - in other words, it must weigh between 2.400 and 2.600 grams to be legal tender. Or in other-other words, if a zincoln loses more than 4 percent of its mass, it becomes no-longer-legal-tender. I'm pretty sure more than 4% of the volume of this formerly circular coin is now missing, therefore this coin should be underweight and thus no longer legal tender. And thus, no longer a "coin".
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Posted 03/16/2025 2:55 pm
