Decomposition of a Zinc Lincoln...
Jimnight
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Post a rotting Zinc Lincoln cent and how you feel about handling them in your change or touching them from searching a cent roll?
I really don't like to touch these coins. Who knows what's on them 
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Better that than the rotting decomposing roadkills that I run past, breathing thru my mouth until I get upwind. Peace Roy
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I've been going through a bunch of BU zincoln rolls. These are actually pretty good ones but there are still lots of coins rotted in two's three's, or four's. They're just stuck together. It takes two or three good rolls to make one that can be wholesaled. There are lots of bad rolls with no good coins at all.
When I metal detecting on the beach I find a lot of rotted half-zincolns.
I see my fair share a few times a day off of I-70
Pretty nice size dough smothered on the road this morning. But you see your share in a truck
Zincolns seem to deteriorate quickly when exposed to the elements... Salt water devours them....Cheers, RickO
Since the Mint makes about 23 per person per year, and a lot of people do not even use them, to me that tells a lot about the importance of the coin. Few care about it, so what if it rots away in a few years.
The coin is a consumable, not a permanent.
Like fussing about bread getting moldy in 2 weeks.