Please Help With This Canadian Penny.....

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Webs Valued Member United States 88 Posts	Posted 11/11/2019 6:29 pm * Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. * Please look at the attached pictures. 2010 Canadian Penny. No copper. Zinc only. Does it look to you like it simply did not receive that layer when it was minted? Or has it been through an acid bath or something similar. Thanks! Report this Post to the Staff

Webs Valued Member United States 88 Posts	Posted 11/11/2019 7:06 pm ......and, if it is like this strictly through the minting process, does it add any value, or is it just an low-value error? Report this Post to the Staff
John1 Moderator United States 56855 Posts	Posted 11/11/2019 7:23 pm Looks like environmental damage to me. John1 Report this Post to the Staff
mcshilling Pillar of the Community Canada 9160 Posts	Posted 11/11/2019 7:24 pm It looks like environmental damage. Edit John types faster. Edited by mcshilling 11/11/2019 7:26 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Coinfrog Bedrock of the Community United States 94367 Posts	Posted 11/11/2019 7:54 pm Have to agree - just discoloration from some unknown environmental exposure. Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10458 Posts	Posted 11/11/2019 9:41 pm Can you post a photo of the rim (edge)? It almost looks like a "Texas penny" to me... "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
fortcollins Pillar of the Community United States 3646 Posts	Posted 11/11/2019 10:04 pm On your coin, traces of the copper remain. One spot is directly above the numeral "1" in the denomination. It was most likely reverse plated to strip the copper. This is a common high school lab experiment, generally combined with a potato battery. Switching the anode and cathode strips the copper from the coin and attaches it to the copper foil. Report this Post to the Staff
john100 Pillar of the Community Canada 5324 Posts	Posted 11/11/2019 10:46 pm Coin could have been recovered from a donation pond or fountain. Report this Post to the Staff
Webs Valued Member United States 88 Posts	Posted 11/12/2019 4:15 pm OK....My instincts were correct then. It was up for auction, and I just wanted confirmation of the environmental damage. Thanks. Report this Post to the Staff
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