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fourmack Pillar of the Community New Zealand 1679 Posts	Posted 12/16/2018 1:40 pm 1906 large cent missing copper or? your thoughts Cheers Don Vickies cents and GB Farthings nut. "Old" is a figure of speech and nothing more Report this Post to the Staff

okiecoiner Pillar of the Community Canada 5585 Posts	Posted 12/16/2018 1:45 pm Something spilled on it .. it is above the surface. Report this Post to the Staff
fourmack Pillar of the Community New Zealand 1679 Posts	Posted 12/16/2018 1:47 pm below the top layer Cheers Don Vickies cents and GB Farthings nut. "Old" is a figure of speech and nothing more Report this Post to the Staff
Coinfrog Bedrock of the Community United States 94367 Posts	Posted 12/16/2018 2:20 pm If so, and since this is not a plated coin, some foreign substance must simply have eaten away and discolored this small area. Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10456 Posts	Posted 12/16/2018 4:38 pm Pay close attention to the colour of the rim adjacent to that area... something pretty harsh has affected that coin (post-mint). "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
TerryT Pillar of the Community Canada 818 Posts	Posted 12/17/2018 12:46 am It can't be "missing copper". The composition of the 1906 cents was an alloy of 95% copper, 4% tin, 1% zinc. No Canadian cents were clad or plated until the late 1990's I believe. There's a line on your coin where you can see the metal has been eroded away. That coin saw a lot of action and cleaning and bad guck, I mean bad luck, over the years. The edge discolouring looks like a bit of salt corrosion, common on the streets of Canada in the winters, or any other corrosive material it could have come in contact with in the last 100 years. Report this Post to the Staff
fourmack Pillar of the Community New Zealand 1679 Posts	Posted 12/17/2018 1:32 pm Thanks for your comments as I had to make sure it was damaged by acid or something else. Cheers Don Vickies cents and GB Farthings nut. "Old" is a figure of speech and nothing more Report this Post to the Staff
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