Look at this extreme orange peel

JRocco

Is this extreme orange peel on this 84 or what???

itsnotjustme

That variety should be called smallpox.

Russ

That's pretty wild. Are you sure it's mint caused?

Russ, NCNE

BillJones

It's either a very bad copper plating job, which happened a lot with the first zinc and copper plated cents in the early 1980s. OR it was done later outside the mint. If the color is as bright and brassy as what is showing on the scan, I'd vote for plated out side the mint.

JRocco

It's real Russ and Bill. I pulled this out of a new bank roll back in the mid 80's looking for an example of the DDO. I started looking for these extreme examples of bubbling and have quite a few fine examples from both 83 and 84 (both bad years for the mint's quality control) What does bother me is what looks like some signs of PVC damage on the reverse even though this was stored in a non-PVC 2X2

XpipedreamR

<< <i>That variety should be called smallpox. >>




My thoughts exactly!

Rampage

I have a few 1983 cents that look like that when I took them out of their original rolls. Also have some that have that spotting like yours have. Those came out of the same rolls.

Like several zits that you can just pop and watch all the ooze pour out.

BillJones

I don't think that the spot is PVC. It could be a hole in the coating with the zinc showing though. Check it with a strong glass.

I saw an 1983 doubed Die with the hole in the plating back when I was shopping for my in the 1980s. The metal under it was corroding badly. Unplated zinc does that, which is why these cents are bio-degradable within a few months if they are lost in the great outdoors. I would not have touched that '83 doubled die with ten foot pole. I'd be afraid that I would end up with a holder or envelope full of zinc oxide, not the stuff you put on your nose either.

windwhispersintrees

barf

JRocco

You were right Bill, it is a break in the plating, well I'll be darned. I knew the 2X2 was PVC free. I don't have any other good examples with me here today, but I have an 83 that shows some of the same also--Orange Pell all the way.

Gilbert

Wow, I'm surprised you haven't taken a beating for using the term "orange peel".

Last time the adjective came up as a "descriptor" there were numerous posts on how it could only be used for early copper proofs (I think it was IndianHead), but I;m not sure. I heard the term applied to various coins that have surfaces resembling an orange peel, but ....

Anyway, I thought it was somewhat humorous.