Is this environmental or a planchette error?

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• TurtleCat Posts: 4,628 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 22, 2021 9:14AM

  Without a doubt environmental damage. It’s basically corrosion and zinc rot.

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• JBK Posts: 16,402 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 22, 2021 9:16AM

  Obvious damage/rot.

  Spend it fast as it is disintegrating.

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• FredWeinberg Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 22, 2021 11:02AM

  What it is should be painfully obvious.

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• airplanenut Posts: 22,382 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 22, 2021 11:07AM

  @FredWeinberg said:
  What it is should be painfully obvious.

  Is it terminal, doctor?

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• MsMorrisine Posts: 35,806 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 22, 2021 11:07AM

  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 Posts: 24,681 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 22, 2021 11:12AM

  Obvious extreme environmental damage.

  All glory is fleeting.

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• jmlanzaf Posts: 36,489 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 22, 2021 11:18AM

  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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