Question: Blight On Coins, Electrolysis, Copper Disease?

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Coinvirgin Valued Member United States 123 Posts	Posted 02/26/2018 01:45 am * Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. * This may be a stupid question but I'm going to ask it anyway. The LMC Zinclons look sick a lot of the time "as though they have an infection"( for lack of a better term.) My question is: Can this be past from one coin to another? The reason I ask is because I feel guilty for tossing these " ill" coins back into the bucket to mingle with the others. I have taken to separating the obviously infected ones. It maybe my maternal instincts working over time? Am I wasting y time? Report this Post to the Staff

Crazyb0 Rest in Peace 10197 Posts	Posted 02/26/2018 02:08 am You are wasting your time yes, and yes there is a bit of "pass it on" but not from the coins decomposing. That which causes the coins to rot is there and is passed on, called skin oils, other liquids often found in car cupholders, air, sunlight. Nothing ya can do about those is there! The stinkin zinkins were a disaster from the beginning. Putting copper and zinc in a plating way, layered, is like a battery, all that's needed is an electrolyte(moisture/caustic oils) and you begin a chemical reaction, we see it as the zinc zits, plating blisters(bubbles) and that grayish dust of corrosion. And, there are multiple hundreds of BILLIONS of them...worse than cockroaches! Yeeech! I said it before, don't ya just love that smell of stinkin zinkin rot in a new box of coins in the morning! Yummm! Edited by Crazyb0 02/26/2018 02:11 am Report this Post to the Staff
Spence Moderator United States 34418 Posts	Posted 02/26/2018 06:23 am @CV, I think that this is a good question because there is a "disease" called Bronze Disease that does pass between copper coins that come into intimate contact with each other. BD is more a phenomenon of ancient coins though. As far as Zinc rot goes, I would argue that it is the dings and abrasions that put holes in the copper plating that are much to blame. When you see a modern cent starting this decomposition process, probably best to spend it! "If you climb a good tree, you get a push." -----Ghanaian proverb "The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed." -----King Adz Report this Post to the Staff
chafemasterj Pillar of the Community United States 6514 Posts	Posted 02/26/2018 07:14 am Thanks Crazyb0, I understand the Zincoln's much better now. Makes total sense, I just needed to see it spelt out for me. Check out my counterstamped Lincoln Cent collection: http://goccf.com/t/303507 Report this Post to the Staff
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