Any idea's it's it's like the inside is smaller then the outside
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Acid bath......
Whatever ate away at the coin was more aggressive towards copper than it was the copper-nickel.
Jesse C. Kraft, Ph.D.
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It does appear to have been either acid etched or in an acidic environment (i.e. acidic soil) for a period of time...Definitely etched the copper...PMD. Cheers, RickO
Likely buried for a while (at the beach, in the woods, wherever...) and this is the result.
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