1950's One Cent - Acid Damage Or Strike Through?

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robmck1967 Pillar of the Community Canada 870 Posts	Posted 03/30/2018 8:05 pm I have this penny from either 1952 or 1953. the obverse is crisp and looks normal but the reverse is odd. one thing that throws me off is the coin has been cleaned so I keep looking at it and I can't determine what is going on. the ADA of Canada is as crisp as the obverse but pretty much everything else on the reverse is mushy. one thought is that a pool of acid was left on the reverse and it didn't get to all of the letters of CANADA and the left side of the 1. or it is a strike through of some sort but it sure doesn't look like any strike throughs that I have all comments welcome. thanks in advance! Report this Post to the Staff

Mark1959 Pillar of the Community 7234 Posts	Posted 03/30/2018 8:19 pm Looks like it is muddled in some kind of gunk - try soaking that cent in Acetone for a few hours and see what happens. Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10458 Posts	Posted 03/30/2018 8:21 pm Did you weigh the coin? "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
Coinfrog Bedrock of the Community United States 94367 Posts	Posted 03/30/2018 9:04 pm Agree, try soaking it first. Report this Post to the Staff
robmck1967 Pillar of the Community Canada 870 Posts	Posted 03/30/2018 9:05 pm definitely no gunk on it. someone already cleaned it which gave it a weird colour. I did weigh it. it weighs 3.15 gr and when I compared it to my blank planchets from the same era (only because I have several with the weight listed) and they ranged from 3.15 gr to 3.28 gr so it is under weight but within mint tolerances. Report this Post to the Staff
spru Bedrock of the Community United States 12477 Posts	Posted 03/30/2018 10:08 pm Greaser? In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020 In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020 In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024 Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10458 Posts	Posted 03/30/2018 11:57 pm It just does not look right... this is one of those coins that you have to examine in hand... "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
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