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Pillar of the Community
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While CRHing this afternoon I found a strange coin.
A 1988-D with a ton of little dots all over it. They kind of look like little bubbles. What is this, if anything?
Thanks for the input.
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Valued Member
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sounds interesting,would like to see a pic of the coin
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Pillar of the Community
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Sounds like zinc rot, but a picture would help.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Common, they are what we call gas bubbles under the plating.  |
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I always wondered if it was gas bubbles or trapped debris during plating? John1  |
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I have pulled some similar coins, and one that was so extreme the bubbles were at least 1/4cm across, the whole coin looked like it had acne lol
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Bedrock of the Community
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Quick, get rid of that coin. It may have small pox of chicken pox. Might even be something from another planet being used to invade Earth.  Actually many Cents from the 80's era have that problem. Some really bad batches of metal mixtures or gas bubbles. Many from the 80's too have an sort of extra rim running through many of the letters on the obverse. Some people used to save all of these thinking they were Mint errors. They are in a way but so common just not worth more than one without all those problems. Many collectors find it is not easy to find Cents from the late 80's without some of these problems. |
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Good to know thank you everybody.
Badthad's picture is exactly what I have.
Just Carl: I'll get rid of it right away!! [:O)]
But in reality, should I keep it or not. I know I know. "do why you want," but is there any collector intrest in these or just considered a regular common 80's cent?
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Pillar of the Community
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"just Carl":
You mentioned it is actualy harder to find late 80's WITHOUT these bubbles. Should I keep an eye out for these? Are they worth anything more?
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Bedrock of the Community
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"just Carl":
You mentioned it is actualy harder to find late 80's WITHOUT these bubbles. Should I keep an eye out for these? Are they worth anything more? Not exactly impossible but sort of difficult. If you start looking at Cents from the 80's, you'll see lots of problems. Remember those were the first attempts at clad Cents and the process back then really was not the best. Lots of them, into the 90's, also had weak writting on the upper part of the reverse also. For some time many people I know collected those as if real error coins. I too started doing that until I noticed those errors, bubbles, etc. were as common as ones without. Remember in the 80's and 90's mintages were in the 5, 6 or more BILLIONS. So even to many error collectors, just to many of those type of errors out there. If you don't have any, still fun to save a few. Fun to show people a coin with an illness.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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But in reality, should I keep it or not. I know I know. "do why you want," but is there any collector intrest in these or just considered a regular common 80's cent? If it's a nice, mint state example, you should save it. The 86D and 87D BU rolls are pretty expensive. Lincoln Cent Lover!VERDI-CARE™ INVENTOR https://verdi.care/
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Pillar of the Community
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I'd be curious to see what happens to all of these zinc cents in the next 50-100 years.
To my knowledge, it is a very slow chemical reaction betwen the zinc and copper that takes 10-15 years to become noticeable. It is nearly universal on all AU/BU coins from 1982-1992, and I've noticed some of the coins as new as 2000-2004 are starting to bubble.
If all zinc cents bubble after 10-25 years, I could see a good niche market for non-bubbled cents in about 20-50 years.
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Wow goo insight. Thanks for the help everybody.
I'll definitely save a few good examples and 2x2 them.
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