What causes this bumpy texture?

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• 09sVDB Posts: 2,420 ✭✭✭

  January 24, 2013 7:45AM

  Impurities in the planchet or improperly rinsed?

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• steveben Posts: 4,634 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 24, 2013 7:48AM

  i guess that it's debris on the die or perhaps a late die state...really late!

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• mingot Posts: 1,807 ✭✭✭

  January 24, 2013 7:48AM

  Problems with the copper plating process.

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• OldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 24, 2013 7:54AM

  Too much chocolate
  
  Steve

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• cmerlo1 Posts: 7,956 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 24, 2013 7:56AM

  Bubbles in the plating- seems to be common on the early zincolns. I've even seen proofs that have it.

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• LindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 24, 2013 8:04AM

  Copper plating not uniform enough to keep the Zinc from Oxidizing.

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• FredWeinberg Posts: 5,923 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 24, 2013 8:08AM

  As mentioned above a few times,
  'improper copper plating' of the
  zinc planchet......

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• lava Posts: 3,286 ✭✭✭

  January 24, 2013 8:10AM

  Is it me or is there an extra line in that E?

  I brake for ear bars.

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• DeliaBug Posts: 881 ✭

  January 24, 2013 8:15AM

  Underneath the bubbles is where the government has been secretly hiding nano-warriors for years. When the time comes to stop minting cents and they are activated the government, all cents everywhere like this will become fierce nano-bot warriors and destroy all of your other normal cents. Except if they are in plastic.

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• LanceNewmanOCC Posts: 19,999 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 24, 2013 8:20AM

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  annealing?
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• errormaven Posts: 1,170 ✭✭✭

  January 24, 2013 9:25AM

  It's a case of blistered plating. A weak bond between the plating and the underlying zinc permitted gas to expand and push up a profusion of blisters at the moment of the strike.

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