2005 Lincoln Cent Dropped Element Or Strike Through

stash · March 29, 2015 11:00AM

Lincoln is back from the grave, he now a mutant [URL=http://s1296.photobucket.com/user/stash38/media/A005 - 20150329_200655 2-horz_zpsjblhwfui.jpg.html]

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CaptHenway · March 29, 2015 11:19AM

Looks like some kind of heat damage. Perhaps something very hot fall across the face of the coin and melted the copper plating into the zinc core, forming an area of brass?

Just a guess.

stash · March 29, 2015 11:24AM

Looks like some kind of heat damage. Perhaps something very hot fall across the face of the coin and melted the copper plating into the zinc core, forming an area of brass Its raised, and stamped into the coin, image even shows up in it, so I would think it fell on the planchet, before it got struck

stash · March 29, 2015 11:26AM

<< <i>Looks like some kind of heat damage. Perhaps something very hot fall across the face of the coin and melted the copper plating into the zinc core, forming an area of brass Its raised, and stamped into the coin, image even shows up in it, so I would think it fell on the planchet, before it got struck >>

stash · March 29, 2015 11:28AM

Its raised, and stamped into the coin, image even shows up in it, so I would think it fell on the planchet, before it got struck

stash · March 29, 2015 11:30AM

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MsMorrisine · March 29, 2015 1:12PM

<< <i>Looks like some kind of heat damage. Perhaps something very hot fall across the face of the coin and melted the copper plating into the zinc core, forming an area of brass?

Just a guess. >>

Zinc melts way before copper. If both melted there would be no design left and it would be deformed.

MsMorrisine · March 29, 2015 1:14PM

It can't be a dropped element since there is no element of that size and shape to drop

And dropped elements are struck into not raised

Are you sure it's not a foreign substance like glue?

ctf_error_coins · March 29, 2015 1:19PM

PMD

BLUEJAYWAY · March 29, 2015 4:01PM

I cannot contribute a definitive cause, but it has a strange allure/appeal to me.

Christos · March 29, 2015 4:07PM

I would give it a bath in acetone to get the grime off, this would give a better look to the area in question. It looks like it had a band-aid on it. Anyway from the pics it is kind of hard to tell could we get a couple more and a bit larger? The coin could have a planchet flaw and could have also been AT to just mess around and so on....

GrumpyEd · March 29, 2015 6:10PM

PMD.

It was probably a temp test melting a eutectic strip.

stash · March 29, 2015 9:54PM

I'm going to get some acetone today, did a little olive oil bath this morning, very little too, didn't want to hurt the coin [URL=http://s1296.photobucket.com/user/stash38/media/A012 - 20150330_071526 2_zpsh6bs0wlm.jpg.html]

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CaptHenway · March 29, 2015 11:26PM

<< <i>It can't be a dropped element since there is no element of that size and shape to drop

And dropped elements are struck into not raised

Are you sure it's not a foreign substance like glue? >>

Upon seeing the new picture I think you are right. Looks like glue atop the surface.

silverpop · March 29, 2015 11:28PM

PMD

ricko · March 29, 2015 11:45PM

Use acetone..... if it is glue or some organic substance, it will be removed... Cheers, RickO

stash · March 30, 2015 3:40AM

<< <i>Use acetone..... if it is glue or some organic substance, it will be removed... Cheers, RickO >>

I will try acetone, I never used it, so the internet will be my resources, on how to use with copper cents, still has some nice color under that black stuff, which I think is dried grease, but the gold object is not going away, its some kind of metal object, maybe brass ..

MsMorrisine · March 30, 2015 4:40AM

Plating remnants?

Acetone generally won't bother the copper nor toning. I suspect those who have experienced color change with copper and acetone probably had some thin film of something on the coin beforehand.

Acetone is flammable and you just soak away from an ignition source.

2005 Lincoln Cent Dropped Element Or Strike Through

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