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I found this in a BU roll of 1981 Cents. What’s this error called. Missing plating
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Cents weren't copper-plated zinc in 1981, they were bronze.
I believe it’s just called a missing plating error.
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I think it is a die break error. This type is often called a "rim cud".
A piece of the edge of the die breaks off and then the coins struck after that have a raised metal blob where the die void is.
Agree with @dcarr. I would call this a cud.
...and since 1981 cents weren't plated in the first place, this couldn't possibly be called missing plating.
Yep, small cud.
The metal isn’t raised. A cud is raised this looks like a small clipped planchet but it’s not a clip it literally just has a layer missing to show the silver colored base metal
You asked, they answered. There's no silver colored base metal, as 1981 Lincolns are still 95% Cu. It is interesting. Non-retained cud?
Maybe you'll get some Fred Weinberg help tomorrow if you TTT the thread.
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If not a rim cud, then it could be a folded-in burr from the planchet. I think this has an actual name, but I can't think of it right now.
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Looking at the magnified picture, it sure looks raised. If you say it is not, then it must be how I see the picture. Cheers, RickO
No matter what it is it is not of much importance. A very minor minting error at best.
No such thing on a 1981, unless it's counterfeit.
Is that what Alan Herbert used to call a "rolling fold error"?
Check the weight, which should eliminate the possibility that it is a copper-plated zinc cent. The 95% copper cents are 48 grains or about 3.1 grams. The zinc ones are 2.5 grams, or 38.58 grains.
Other than that, all I can suggest is post some better pictures. Try turning the coin relative to your light source to get a better image.
Possibility: post mint damage where the coin scraped against something made of a greyish metal, and some of that metal rubbed off on this coin.
It looks like PMD with a scrape exposed. Are there actually 2 different colors shown there? It has that bubbling field seen in some later year cents.
Looks to me like a peeled lamination (for lack of better description) as there are ragged edges where it tore from the host coin.
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Wow after looking at the coin again the metal is all the same color. I’m sorry guys. This one is nothing. My apologies
Yeah, that's what I was thinking of.
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