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I found a 1981 D Lincoln cent coin roll hunting with ballooned details on obverse and reverse.

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  • lcutlerlcutler Posts: 556 ✭✭✭✭

    Welcome to the forum. Clear pictures of the whole coin would be more useful, but from what I see you have a "dryer coin". A coin that has been trapped in some type of machinery like a commercial dryer for a period of time causing the damage.

  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 34,560 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Just worn down.

  • dcarrdcarr Posts: 8,523 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Exposure to acid and/or corrosion can produce effects like that.

    Moonlight Mint
  • GreenstangGreenstang Posts: 1,161 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Welcome to the forum

    First, always provide complete photos of both sides of the coin along with a closeup.
    This gives us a better perception of what we are looking at. Also do NOT use screen shots,
    they are too pixilated. As far as your coin goes, it is just damaged and has no value. It
    doesn’t really matter what caused it, damage is damage.

  • Manifest_DestinyManifest_Destiny Posts: 6,896 ✭✭✭✭✭

  • KbizzKbizz Posts: 2 ✭

    Appreciate the answers still learning.

  • CoinscratchCoinscratch Posts: 8,713 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That one has a hammered strike! :D

  • SapyxSapyx Posts: 2,218 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I believe this kind of effect can be readily recreated by putting a coin in a gemstone tumbler.

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  • CregCreg Posts: 524 ✭✭✭✭

    Welcome— please post photos of both sides of the coin in iheir entirety (and any other coin in the future)—
    Dryer? Gemstone tumbler? Blender? Hammered? I gots to know.

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