Pitted dies or struck through grease?

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• LanLord Posts: 11,722 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 20, 2008 7:23AM

  bubbles under the copper plating

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• 19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭

  November 20, 2008 7:36AM

  
  
  << <i>bubbles under the copper plating >>
  
  
  
  Ditto!
  
  Totally common on the Zincoln Cents!

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• DorkGirl Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭

  November 20, 2008 9:34AM

  Yep, your cent has gas.....
  
  
  
  
  

  Becky

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• cheezhed Posts: 5,948 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 20, 2008 9:46AM

  Interesting.
  
  For being so common, it's the first time I've seen one.

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• DieClash Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭

  November 25, 2008 8:30AM

  The first copper-plated zincolns were a pure copper plate over a pure zinc core. The zinc core oxidized too fast resulting in bubbles (See Link to Original thread ). The mint addressed the problem by adding a small amount of copper to the zinc core in 1984.

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• MillerJW Posts: 649 ✭✭

  November 25, 2008 8:33AM

  Are you sure lincoln doesnt have the measles?

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• JupitarCoins Posts: 2,595 ✭

  November 25, 2008 9:25AM

  Ole Abe lincoln has leprosy. Really its just gas bubbles.

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• julie43 Posts: 261

  November 25, 2008 1:30PM

  Unfortunately I have many of these in proof sets

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