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Does This 1985-D Have A Double D?

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 Posted 12/13/2010  10:56 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add northwestseeker to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Does it have some sort of error or is it time to get some sleep and rest my eyes...
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 Posted 12/13/2010  11:11 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Gutkowski to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Click on image code and right click and paste it :P
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 Posted 12/13/2010  11:18 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add northwestseeker to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
is it worth more than 1 cent?
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 Posted 12/13/2010  11:23 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add biokemist6 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Split plating, the zinc is exposed and beginning to corrode.
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 Posted 12/13/2010  11:30 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add chrism420 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Is split plating the same as deterioration?
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No, it's not.

Split plating is where the copper plating splits open like a cut when the coin is struck leaving the sinc core exposed to the elements. The zinc rots and hollows out underneath the copper shell leaving a cavity.

Die Deterioration is when a die strikes so many coins it starts to lose its detail. The loss of detail transfers to the coin as blurry details, deep and long flow lines, etc.

The two terms are very different.

The coin in this thread is split plating.
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Yes, definitely split plating which makes looking for rpm's in these years more challenging:(.

For many zinc cents, the edge of the mint mark is a common place for these splits to occur.

I find many mint state examples with a zinc band clearly exposed just outlining the edge of the mint mark due to the copper being pulled away during the strike. As others have said, as soon as these coins are exposed to the elements,
the zinc quickly begins to corrode, leaving a coin similar to your example.

This zinc rot corrosion will be the fate of the majority of all cents minted after 1982. For this reason, I feel that it is well worth saving any high end uncirculated examples I find as they get rarer every year:).

Good luck with your searches!
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Just two minor anecdotes to add to this...and they are related.

Mintmarks were placed into the individual cent dies by hand until (and including) 1989. The integrity of the very thin copper plating on the planchets depended heavily on the design having the proper 'bevel' so the devices would not get stuck in the recesses of the die. Given that the mintmarks were placed by hand, many times they were tilted slightly so as to create a shearing edge along the mintmark. This is why the zinc is most often exposed around the mintmark.

Second thing, I agree with chugly except to say that the zinc cents up to 1990 are the ones that rot will take the best of because of the split plating issue. Any zinc cent 1982-1989 in nice uncirculated grades will eventually be the comparison to the Indian Head cents of the 1870s (but for different reasons). The comparison is that basically there will be a stretch in the middle of the series where values will be way higher than on either side. My forecast is that this section will be 1982-1989.
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