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Abe with the pox

carscars Posts: 1,904
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What's with this cent? The pics do not really show it well but there are a bunch of raised bumps all over the front of this coin. Back is normal.
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Its all relative

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    STONESTONE Posts: 15,275 ✭
    Fire damage, corrosion?
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    tightbudgettightbudget Posts: 7,299 ✭✭✭
    Corrosion
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    coinman420coinman420 Posts: 4,666 ✭
    the zinc core is corroding and it is causing blistering in the copper plated layer.


    edited to add: it has cancer.
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    micmtmicmt Posts: 671
    Atleast its not a DD image
    "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making new discoveries" -A.A. Milne

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