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What is wrong with this cent ?

Occluded gas bubble ?

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  • PTVETTERPTVETTER Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭✭✭

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  • BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Post-mint damage.

    Wasted an air-tite.

  • Rich49Rich49 Posts: 191 ✭✭✭

    This is not in a air-tite photographed on a microscope stage.Found in a roll.

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  • GRANDAMGRANDAM Posts: 8,777 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Shot with a BB Gun,,,,,

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  • BruceSBruceS Posts: 1,356 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Coin mites.


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  • 1Mike11Mike1 Posts: 4,427 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I would say not bubbles. Someone punched holes through the copper.

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  • mvs7mvs7 Posts: 1,662 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Definitely post-mint damage. Icepick practice?

  • Type2Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Was ran over in the street or sidewalk the small rocks poked holes in the copper and time did the rest. :#



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  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    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. ;)

  • mustangmanbobmustangmanbob Posts: 1,890 ✭✭✭✭✭

    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. :'(

  • WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭

    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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  • TreashuntTreashunt Posts: 6,747 ✭✭✭✭✭

    just plain old damage

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  • DCWDCW Posts: 7,645 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Zinc rot, nothing more.

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  • Rich49Rich49 Posts: 191 ✭✭✭

    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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  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 14,111 ✭✭✭✭✭

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Definitely damage... I would have said parking lot...however, the wishing well idea is also valid... Cheers, RickO

  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It looks like corrosion eating away at the penny.

  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,716 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Just a damaged cent. No numismatic value.

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  • DBSTrader2DBSTrader2 Posts: 3,498 ✭✭✭✭

    John Wilkes Booth.................... :o

  • JBKJBK Posts: 16,491 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @DBSTrader2 said:
    John Wilkes Booth.................... :o

    Old Abe was awfully patient while JWB kept reloading his muzzle loading single shot derringer...

  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,553 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @WoodenJefferson said:
    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.

    I agree.........................

    Zinc Cents don't hold up well.

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  • DMWJRDMWJR Posts: 6,046 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Glue? lol.

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  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 36,986 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @WoodenJefferson said:
    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.

    Not chlorine. Look at the marks near the rim. It's impact damage not simple corrosion.

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  • WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭

    @jmlanzaf said:

    @WoodenJefferson said:
    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.

    Not chlorine. Look at the marks near the rim. It's impact damage not simple corrosion.

    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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  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 36,986 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @WoodenJefferson said:

    @jmlanzaf said:

    @WoodenJefferson said:
    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.

    Not chlorine. Look at the marks near the rim. It's impact damage not simple corrosion.

    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.

    Yes, there could be corrosion subsequent to the impact damage.

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  • Rich49Rich49 Posts: 191 ✭✭✭

    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.

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