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cars Posts: 1,904

January 31, 2009 12:29PM in U.S. Coin Forum

What's with this cent? The pics do not really show it well but there are a bunch of raised bumps all over the front of this coin. Back is normal.

Its all relative

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STONE Posts: 15,275 ✭

January 31, 2009 12:40PM

Fire damage, corrosion?

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tightbudget Posts: 7,299 ✭✭✭

January 31, 2009 1:00PM

Corrosion

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coinman420 Posts: 4,666 ✭

January 31, 2009 1:07PM

the zinc core is corroding and it is causing blistering in the copper plated layer.

edited to add: it has cancer.

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micmt Posts: 671

January 31, 2009 1:47PM

Atleast its not a DD

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