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What is wrong with this cent ?
Rich49
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Occluded gas bubble ?
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Rich49
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PMD
Post-mint damage.
Wasted an air-tite.
This is not in a air-tite photographed on a microscope stage.Found in a roll.
Shot with a BB Gun,,,,,
Coin mites.
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I would say not bubbles. Someone punched holes through the copper.
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Definitely post-mint damage. Icepick practice?
Was ran over in the street or sidewalk the small rocks poked holes in the copper and time did the rest.
Hoard the keys.
Your coin is corroded. While many call anything that happens to a coin after it is struck PMD, environmental damage is the more specific description used to describe the damage to your coin.
Possibly .22 rat shot
More than 1 cent has been a victim, In today's politically correct environment, I would not state HOW or WHY a Kennedy Half or a Lincoln Cent would be used for rat shot shooting and how the scoring was done, and where the bonus point spots were. :'(
More than likely, a 'whishing well' coin tossed into a fountain for a wish. The chlorine in the water reacted with the zinc core forming bubbles, the bubbles collapsed making pock marks in the thin copper jacket. Spend it.
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just plain old damage
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Zinc rot, nothing more.
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I have pulled some weird snotty looking stuff out of rolls, this was a good discussion .Always learning from the well of knowledge here.Thanks everyone !
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Definitely damage... I would have said parking lot...however, the wishing well idea is also valid... Cheers, RickO
It looks like corrosion eating away at the penny.
Just a damaged cent. No numismatic value.
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Old Abe was awfully patient while JWB kept reloading his muzzle loading single shot derringer...
I agree.........................
Zinc Cents don't hold up well.
Pete
Glue? lol.
Not chlorine. Look at the marks near the rim. It's impact damage not simple corrosion.
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How about impact corrosion then? There could and are numerous reasons this Zincolon turned out this way, right? No one can really say exactly what happened to this sad looking example of modern disposable coinage but it's fun to think of various reasons.
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Yes, there could be corrosion subsequent to the impact damage.
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Because the holes vary in size some as small as a pin point.I believe it they are plating blisters that burst combined with some water corrosion and not some sort of impact.