Copper is a reactive metal and will tone when exposed to numerous things in the environment. Can't say specifically what it is without analytical tests, but It doesn't look unusual
I opened this thread hoping to see a 3001 cent. I'm really disappointed.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
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The copper coating is tarnished. Exposure to fingers and environment does a good job in tarnishing copper from reddish to brown.
Copper is a reactive metal and will tone when exposed to numerous things in the environment. Can't say specifically what it is without analytical tests, but It doesn't look unusual
Sorry for all the questions want to be sure .asking when I don’t no .or no for sure . learning . Thank you
I opened this thread hoping to see a 3001 cent. I'm really disappointed.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
You may as well stay dissapointed then. We won't have any Cents in 3001.
Pete
Beam me up Scotty. Credits is what humanity shall be dealing with. Peace Roy
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we don't have any sense now
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Sure we will. After the zombie apocalypse and the collapse of civilization, they'll be grinding those coins into arrowheads and other weaponry.
(And damn if I can't remember the book that was in... Earth Abides? Read it when I was a kid.
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I hope the Zincoln Zinc doesn't poison the peeps who make them.
Pete