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New Member
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So I found this in pocket change Its Realy thin but has both sides are intact enough to see everything.so why would it be so thin.is it worth anything?   |
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Moderator
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Almost certainly a coin previously soaked in acid. If you use the search box in the upper left hand part of your screen and enter the keywords ACID and CENT, you will see many previous examples against which you can compare your own coin.
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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Rest in Peace
United States
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New Member
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Thanks for your help. Here's better pics. I'm new to coin collecting and it's a lot of fun. I'll be posting more soon   |
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United States
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The acid eats the surface evenly, so that the design elements remain as the thickest part of the coin.  |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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It looks like your coin took an acid bath! Edit: Ahhh, moxking beat me to it  Edited by Tootallious
03/31/2018 4:51 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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Edited by Dorado
03/31/2018 6:18 pm
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New Member
United States
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All that's not verry productive.why would someone do that?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Agree, acid exposed, worth 1 cent.
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Moderator
United States
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why would someone do that? Very good question, and one that we ponder all the time. Science experiment? Boredom? Youtube video?  "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
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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In science classes across the country around the time your coin was minted (and maybe they still do), kids did an experiment where you put a cent in Coca Cola and watched what happened. This encouraged a whole generation to do weird things to coins.
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Bedrock of the Community
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In many high school chem labs kids are doing stuff to coins for fun or an experiment. If you dissolve enough Copper coins in Sulfuric Acid you get Copper Sulfate and if you let it evaporate, you get some really great looking Crystals. I once won a prize doing that. Edited by just carl
04/01/2018 12:04 pm
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