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OH Dear. This Poor Penny.

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I am speechless about this penny. What on earth happened to it?
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Looks like Pac- Man penny.
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Guessing this is PMD.



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It shows how thin the copper coating is over the iron core on these post-1992 pennies!
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Quote:
What on earth happened to it?

Earth happened to it. It's not a friendly planet, if you're a coin.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Exactly, all coins will corrode over time - just at different rates. Today's UNC coins could be poor discs in 20 years or 20000 years!
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