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Valued Member
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I found an interesting looking cent on Saturday; I know it's just PMD of some bizarre sort (or a "rare error" by EBay/Etsy standards...) but I'm curious to see if anybody could come up with an explanation for how this poor coin got this way. Could it perhaps be water damage and therefore related to all these coins I've found inside AC units at my job recently? Either way, somebody's going to get some of these coins currently sitting in my change jar back in their change a year or two from now and think "what the heck happened here..."   Edited by DiscoLover82
07/11/2023 12:12 am
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Bedrock of the Community
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Extreme Environmental Damage of some sort. It could have been in water, outside, etc. There's so many ways that a coin could get damaged. It's impossible to know for sure on how it got damaged.
Errers and Varietys.
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07/11/2023 12:02 am
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Looks like the zinc core has been exposed to the elements and is now rotting this cent from the inside out.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Yes, post-strike damage with the appearance of a zinc issue. Coin didn't leave the striking chamber in that condition.
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Pillar of the Community
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Reminds me of pennies which were thrown into fountains/ wishing wells. Time will eat them up.
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Valued Member
United States
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Zinc Rot. The scourge of the copper cent replacement. IMHO, discontinue the penny in the US.
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Forum Dad
United States
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"What happened to this coin?" shouldn't be the question you ask. There are a billion ways to damage a coin and none of them matter. Learn the minting process and ask the question "Can this happen during the minting process?" If the answer is no, move on.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Cheers for all the responses, gotta say it's all 100% what I expected. I just thought it was interesting to see a coin so thoroughly environmentally damaged in circulation, as opposed to in an environment in which I'd normally encounter coins that look like that! Quote:
Zinc Rot. The scourge of the copper cent replacement. IMHO, discontinue the penny in the US.  Quote:
"What happened to this coin?" shouldn't be the question you ask. There are a billion ways to damage a coin and none of them matter. Learn the minting process and ask the question "Can this happen during the minting process?" If the answer is no, move on. I'm well aware of the minting process, and that there's no way something could have left the mint in this condition...I just also like to consider the lives my coins have had, as they sit in my change jar waiting to be credited into my savings account and returned to circulation... |
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Common corrosive, chemical damage.
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