Is this environmental or a planchette error?

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Jimmytheartist
Jimmytheartist Posts: 74 ✭✭
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Found this coin roll hunting and I'm still trying to decide if it's a planchette error, or environmental damage. Some of the petting that is impressed deeply still has copper and luster I don't get it.

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  • TurtleCat
    TurtleCat Posts: 4,692 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Without a doubt environmental damage. It’s basically corrosion and zinc rot.

  • JBK
    JBK Posts: 17,860 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Obvious damage/rot.

    Spend it fast as it is disintegrating. :p

  • FredWeinberg
    FredWeinberg Posts: 6,039 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    What it is should be painfully obvious.

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  • airplanenut
    airplanenut Posts: 22,763 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @FredWeinberg said:
    What it is should be painfully obvious.

    Is it terminal, doctor? :cry:

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  • MsMorrisine
    MsMorrisine Posts: 40,041 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    corroded zinc is black.

    as zinc corrodes it falls away from the surface like rust flakes off and not like the surface corrosion/tarnish of silver

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  • 291fifth
    291fifth Posts: 25,218 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Obvious extreme environmental damage.

    All glory is fleeting.
  • jmlanzaf
    jmlanzaf Posts: 43,046 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    If it were a planchet error, the strike would be over the top of the defect. [The planchet exists before the coin is struck.] You should be able to tell by the raised dings and damaged devices that the damage occurred AFTER striking.

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