1984 No Mint Lincoln Cent Error?

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Keep in mind the plating of zinc planchets for cents were just starting to make a showing in 1982. The bumps were a plague for sometime, until they realized that part of the issue was plating over zinc dust. Leaving what they called an orange rind look:

Another issue was called gas bubbles like on this coin. Also there would be what is called a linear plating bubble:

These would flow over devices and affect both fields and devices:

Then there was the issue of split plating:



The mintmark area was probably the most affected area:


So many things have happened on zinc cents. They sometimes have a hit during the loading in the collar that loosens a rim bur:


Sometimes they are very large from another coin:


All events that happened on the Zincolns, but a rim bur can occur on other coin age well. So the minor stuff are not collectable, but people save the extreme stuff for educational purposes to new collectors.

CoopHome : orange peel, rinse, bubble, bur

Linear plating and gas bubbles. Sometimes we see some that look like gas bubbles, but when you look at the center of the bubble, you can see gray showing through. Those are caused by split plating and it makes it raise on the coin like one of my image I posted above about mintmark split plating.