1986 D US Penny & The D Has A Circle Around It & Is Sunken In. Also Below The D Is A Hole

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Jody1970 New Member Canada 24 Posts	Posted 10/10/2022 03:29 am Strange 1986 D penny with a perfect circle around the D & the circle is sunk into the penny with a hole. What has caused this to happen & does it have any value. Penny is in rough condition Report this Post to the Staff

Sap Moderator Australia 16837 Posts	Posted 10/10/2022 03:48 am It's a corrosion pit. The zinc has corroded and dissolved out from a small hole in the copper plating. The cause is, most likely, that it was sitting in a pool or fountain for a while. 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 Report this Post to the Staff
John1 Moderator United States 56855 Posts	Posted 10/10/2022 03:49 am That is zinc rot not an error.No added value. John1 Report this Post to the Staff
Jody1970 New Member Canada 24 Posts	Posted 10/10/2022 04:03 am Thank you for the info Report this Post to the Staff
Coinfrog Bedrock of the Community United States 94367 Posts	Posted 10/10/2022 09:09 am Zinc rot for sure. to the CCF! Report this Post to the Staff
coop Bedrock of the Community United States 62064 Posts	Posted 10/10/2022 09:20 am Thus the affected area is showing zinc rot under the split plating area: Report this Post to the Staff
Earle42 Bedrock of the Community United States 10038 Posts	Posted 10/10/2022 10:13 am If you want to catch a rainbow trout, you need to know what a rainbow trout is. The same with coins. Most odd looking things on coins are just post mint damage ( PMD) Save Yourself time, effort, and disappointment...don't learn the coin hobby backwards. Looking for random anomalies on coins and hoping they match up to something collectable will take you a lot more time, wasted effort, and disappointment repeatedly finding out you have nothing but post mint damage or useless Machine Doubling, Die Deterioration, etc. Spend some initial time at places like error-ref.com, doubleddie.com, varietyvista.com, conecaonline.org, coppercoins.com etc. to find what actual and collectable coin errors look like. A good way to start is, for instance, separate a bunch of pennies by date. Go to varietyvista.com and, date by date, use the reference there to see what errors are known for that specific coin/mint mark. Look for those specific errors/varieties using the pictures provided. After doing this for awhile you will KNOW what an actual error looks like and not have to waste time on face value and damaged coins. How much squash could a Sasquatch squash if a Sasquatch would squash squash? Download and read: Grading the graders Costly TPG ineptitude and No FG Kennedy halves https://ln5.sync.com/dl/7ca91bdd0/w...i3b-rbj9fir2 Report this Post to the Staff
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