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Can someone possibly help me identify what's wrong with the year or what happened or how this could happen?  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Please no screen shots!  to the CCF! |
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You've got zinc rot on this 2000 cent. Also, welcome to CCF!
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Bedrock of the Community
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Make sure you check the reverse to see if it's a WAM ( Wide AM) |
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Sorry, Coinfrog,I used the mobile image op and that's how it turned out when uploaded.
Thanks Mr. Spence. So when a date looks like this it's called Zinc Rot...bad penny..have a great weekend!
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Bedrock of the Community
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To CCF! It's a 2000 cent with zinc rot. Errers and Varietys.
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Australia
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Zinc rot can happen anywhere on the coin, not just the date. A pinhole in the copper plating allows water and air to attack the underlying zinc core, which corrodes and expands, pushing the copper up into a roundish "blister" or "bubble". The blister might burst (as it has here), revealing zinc dust in the centre, or it might stay unbroken, looking like a "lump" on the coin's surface. A zinc rot bubble around the date or inscriptions can look like an "O" or other odd lettering. A zinc rot bubble around the mintmark can make the mintmark look like some kind of RPM. And a zinc rot bubble on the design can look like some kind of weird die chip. But they're all zinc rot bubbles - PMD and not mint errors. 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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Thanks Mr.Sap, it does have a "pin hole" in front of the head. I have 1986 penny that has two raised dots, doesn't look like a pin hole, looks like weld bubbles, the best I can explain. I will research zinc rot. Thanks for the helpful information.
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Mnchild, Your 2000 cent has zinc rot issues as stated. Your 1986 sounds like trapped gas bubbles between the copper plating and zinc core. Please find a better way of taking coin photos,the better the pics you post the better we can help you. John1  |
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to the CCF and rot. |
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