What The Hell Happened to My Ike!🤬

may

Oh man, you should have seen my face when I saw that coin, it looks like a baby barfed his carrot and pea mash on it! I’m pretty mad with myself for letting it turn, but just 2 months ago I swear it was blast white. I had no idea it could happen this fast, and as far as I know the cellophane is still sealed. What could have done this?

DoubleEagle59

OMG!!

Do you secretly stash your coins at Chernobyl?

Manifest_Destiny

braddick

I like it!

ctf_error_coins

Did you buy that coin from a state that has floods?

That thing get wet IMO.

privatecoin

Definitely send it in. Then watch them call it AT.

messydesk

Looks like it got wet. Nothing to lose by submerging it in water and seeing if water could get in somewhere.

coinbuf

Agreed the packaging looks warped from water damage, that is quite the sight.

Batman23

Not what I would expect from a mint sealed coin in plastic. Looks like liquid got in there. Ouch.

OAKSTAR

So the obvious questions to the OP.... Where did you get the coin? How long have you had the coin? Where was the coin stored and what were the environmental conditions of where the coin was stored?

Before and after pictures would also have been great! 😂 🤣

nwcoast

Maybe a cat peed on it?
Cat pee is nasty stuff and capable of all kinds of weird and terrible reactions.
Smell it for evidence.

DoubleEagle59

@nwcoast said:
Maybe a cat peed on it?
Cat pee is nasty stuff and capable of all kinds of weird and terrible reactions.
Smell it for evidence.

UGH!

Spend it instead of smelling it.

david3142

I bet @emeraldATV will pay you big money for that.

nwcoast

Or, you could throw it onto The Bay, or some other online marketplace- touting its magnificence as a rare and spectacular “monster toner”, and ask some exorbitant amount of money for it. Could be a big payday ahead?

;-)

(I’ve seen worse)

gumby1234

Might want to check all of your coins and make sure they are in a safe place too.

may

I can’t tell if it smells like pee or old paper, I have both a very old cat and a dog that has peeing problems and like to go wherever they want.

OAKSTAR

@gumby1234 said:
Might want to check all of your coins and make sure they are in a safe place too.

I was just thinking the same exact thing! 😂 🤣

Namvet69

Reminds me of the movie Andromeda Strain. Be vewy vewy careful. Peace Roy

may

The coin was stored in a drawer, so I’m not sure how water got in there. The envelope shows signs of water damage so I think @Batman23 was right.

nwcoast

@Ownerofawheatiehorde said:
I can’t tell if it smells like pee or old paper, I have both a very old cat and a dog that has peeing problems and like to go wherever they want.

Yes, I’ve been there!
That’s why I mentioned it.

Cat pee, in addition to being destructive, and smelling nasty, is very sticky to the touch.
It can be very vile- depending on the cat. I had one cat that used to deliver its contents onto my tools, light stands and even camera bags. The stuff ate up and rusted out the legs of the light stands.
I was not a happy camper!

As others have suggested, check and secure your other materials!
Good luck with those older pets. They need love too of course- along with the supervision and guidance when it comes to their toilet habits.

gumby1234

Put coins in a room where the animals cant go because the door is always closed. Cat and dog urine is acidic and will ruin metals like copper or aluminum, A friend had a dog that peed on his outdoor home
A/C unit and destroyed it.

airplanenut

I'm not one to handle coins with gloves, but perhaps for this one...

OAKSTAR

@Ownerofawheatiehorde said:
The coin was stored in a drawer, so I’m not sure how water got in there. The envelope shows signs of water damage so I think @Batman23 was right.

So the coin was stored in a draw? The envelope show signs of water but you don't know how the water got there? You're killin' us!

Go back to that draw in that room and look up........any holes in the roof?

Smudge

The plastic piece looks ok. That’s odd.

The_Dinosaur_Man

Looks like the aliens abducted the wrong thing for their testing and probing experiments.

Cranium_Basher73

@gumby1234 said:
Put coins in a room where the animals cant go because the door is always closed. Cat and dog urine is acidic and will ruin metals like copper or aluminum, A friend had a dog that peed on his outdoor home
A/C unit and destroyed it.

I had a samoyed growing up. He used to pee on the garage door when he was a puppy. It rusted out. We had to get replace it. He never peed on the new garage door.

may

Who could it be?🧐

This gal is 18 and has bladder issues, but doesn’t go in the room where the drawer is. This little guy however is 2 and likes to “mark” his territory, and has been know to “mark” in that room. But upon further inspection, the real culprit is the fish tank that shares the room with the drawer, the humidity must have gotten to it. Case closed!

P.S. all of the other coins have been evacuated to the cool, dry basement.

UPDATE: I opened up the package, and it reeked like dog pee. That little monkey!

..

I’d grade it a strong VF40 DP (dog pee)….😂

Steven59

@Ownerofawheatiehorde said:
UPDATE: I opened up the package, and it reeked like dog pee. That little monkey!

Well your dog is either good at opening dresser drawers or peeing through keyholes!
Rinse it off and dry it - if the color stays put it on eBay

ctf_error_coins

Well at least we now know it is natural toning, send it in

HoneyMarket

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BLUEJAYWAY

Take it out of the cellophane and make a pocket piece out of it.

Smudge

@BLUEJAYWAY said:
Take it out of the cellophane and make a pocket piece out of it.

I would not put that in my pocket.

erwindoc

If conservation doesnt help it any, I see a pocket piece in your future!

Coinscratch

The dog looks guilty and besides you would know if it was cat piss. We would all know but give it another sniff just in case.

Extremeengineer

I think you misunderstood when they told you some coins could benefit from a dip… they did not mean in a salt tank.

may

After some baking soda, boiling water and an electrical toothbrush, I managed to get most of the nasty stuff off. All that’s left is a band of heavy, red tarnish around Ike’s face and some of that same tarnish in the fields on the reverse. Underneath all that gunk the coin had some great luster, and it was stored very well up until the “incident”.

It will join my other pocket pieces in my coat.

messydesk

So if you sent it to PCGS and they analyzed it with their sniffer, I wonder if the sniffer would reciprocate and also "mark" your coin.

gumby1234

Manifest_Destiny

@Ownerofawheatiehorde said:
After some baking soda, boiling water and an electrical toothbrush, I managed to get most of the nasty stuff off. All that’s left is a band of heavy, red tarnish around Ike’s face and some of that same tarnish in the fields on the reverse. Underneath all that gunk the coin had some great luster, and it was stored very well up until the “incident”.

It will join my other pocket pieces in my coat.

pic?