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Hey all, merry X-mas! Happy Holidays. Take a look at this and let me know your thoughts. 3 strange raised circles on the Obverse. 2 look like they have holes in them... Super strange, they are too perfect for die chips I think and are raised, but don't seem like zinc platting bubbles. I have no clue. what do you think? Thanks, -GB      |
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Pillar of the Community
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Merry Christmas! To my eyes it looks like PMD. |
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Gas bubbles will turn to zinc rot soon. John1  |
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Rest in Peace
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Environmental damage or alien crop circles .  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Lincoln has coughed out a coronavirus thing.  Edited by TNG
12/25/2020 09:55 am
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Pillar of the Community
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Zinc pimples....zinc below the copper plate is beginning to corrode,pushing up the plating...spend it
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I was thinking a Zink pimple possibly, although coughing out coronavirus was funny. I had the alien crop circle come to mind as well. Hah . I wonder if someone will buy it if I market it as the coronavirus penny on ebay :P -Merry Xmas all! -GB |
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I've been wondering about those circles too, I don't think it's PMD at all. I've seen them on tons of coins. I was asking someone else about them in a different forum a couple weeks ago too.  There not just on pennies either  They are too perfect, and on too many coins to be matching PMD. Just my 2 cents worth of thought. Edited by Snoopydoo
12/25/2020 3:27 pm
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I do agree, the pimple ones are a zinc rot.
But the perfect circle ones, they are something different.
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@ Snoopydoo "circles" may be water/detergent stains from the mints cleaning/rinsing process of the blanks ...  only thing I could think of |
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GBiscuits - back to your cents, your cents have trapped gas bubbles under the copper platting caused from gas being trapped/created shortly after being platted in the minting process. Shortly after these things open, zinc rot will appear and will start eating away at your coins from the inside out, Get rid of them while there is anything left!  Snoopydoo, start your own thread with your coin coins. Your's are different than GBiscuits! |
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