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New Member
United States
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So this popped coin popped up in my stash. I assume this is post production damage, but I just wanted to verify on here.   |
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Pillar of the Community
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That's just some serious zinc rot bubbles.
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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Zinc rot. Highly contagious.
Dispose of it before it spreads to your other coins.
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
12477 Posts |
Yep, just zinc rot bubbles (damage).
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
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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That's just some serious zinc rot bubbles.  |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1613 Posts |
Yep. Just like chrome plating. Improperly cleaned base metal plated over.
ANA member - PAN Member - BCCS Member There are no problems only solutions - the late, great John Lennon
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New Member
 United States
46 Posts |
Kind of what I figured. It's definitely an ugly sucker hah
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Pillar of the Community
5464 Posts |
Modern American coinage: Environmentally friendly, biodegradable!
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Valued Member
United States
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Haha I remember that penny! Found it with my metal detector in 2018. Cleaned it and dumped it along with my other finds at the bank into a savings account. Glad to see it's still circulating although it has gotten quite dirty since I had it. Spend it, keep it circulating XD
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Poor ol' Abe! He deserves better than this. Such a great design wasted on zinc.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Modern American coinage: Environmentally friendly, biodegradable! I suppose all of our coins are biodegradable, the Zincolns just prove that much more quickly.  Here are some numbers I wanted to consider concerning Zincolns. This concerns only the production in 1983 from all mints: 14,182,619,538 cents minted in BS/proof That's 35,456,548,845 grams of copper-plated zinc That is, in turn, 78,004,407.459 pounds Which is just over 39,000 tons of copper-plated zinc pushed out. They will most likely disappear into dust and that is for just one year's production. The proofs, while being much more likely to be saved, had a mintage over 2,000 times less than either P or D mint alone. I may just be adding to jbuck's case for the abolition of the penny.   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
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Pillar of the Community
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They will most likely disappear into dust and that is for just one year's production. So you're saying take pictures of all our slabbed Zincolns today. Because our great great grandchildren will have slabs of dust!  |
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I may just be adding to jbuck's case for the abolition of the penny  |
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