An Unusaul PENNY....Believe it or not, It is a PENNY!

[bobm31]

My son and I were out at a local elementary school playground, yesterday trying out my new ACE250 that I got for Christmas...and we found this. It IDed as a penny and we had to look real close to discover that it is a penny. It is very badly corroded as you can see.

 

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[downindixie]

New zinc U.S. cents just can't take the acid in the soil especially if fertilizer is used.

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Dixie said it, the Zinc just doesn't hold up well in fertilized or acidic soil. HH and welcome to the hobby, Mike

 

[TXKajun]

I've found about 6 or 8 that looked like that, mostly under some bleachers and in the parking lot at a local little league field. I think it's a combinatiion of what the penny is made of and the composition of the soil they're in. Some of the posters here have said that fertilizer makes them corrode like that, but I think it's any soil that has a high mineral concentration. I've run them through my tumbler and they clean up a lot slower than the not-so-bad ones, but I don't know if even the bank will cash them in when they're that bad.

HH, ya'll!

 

[rjnail]

next all the coins will be zinc, be none to find after 20 years lost in the ground,

 

[trk5capt]

The Pennies I Find at Salt Water Beaches Come out of the wet sand like that. trk5capt...

 

[treasures4me2find]

What a shame the coins turn out like this.

Ken

 

[lasttoknow (Tim)]

Why is it so hard for you guys to see that some 1st grader just got a little HUNGRY... lol

 

[hollowpointred]

yup thats what happens to zinc pennies after they have been in the ground for a while. i guess they really arent worth anything anymore. i dig em like that all the time.

 

[Nana40]

Can you believe the crap coins they are producing now.... Maybe we need to gather all our junk coins and send them back to the mint....think they will get the hint?

 

[bk]

I call those Alka-Seltzer Cents.

 

[bobm31]

As I can tell from your replies, my penny is not so unusual after all. It is the first one that I have found in this condition; however, evidently it will not be the last.

 

[Southcacalaky]

It's a keeper for you because it's your first one like this . I would like to say that they don't hold up well in gravel parking lots or what they call ROC and some call it crush and run. HH Art...

 

[Siegfried Schlagrule]

Take all the corroded crap the government calls money and donate it to your local congressman and take it off your taxes. He'll get real damn tired of dealing with it and the treasury won't dare not cash them in for him. They both will get the message real quick. Now that they have new and improved our money you have to take a toddler to the hospital if they swallow some pennies instead of letting nature take its course. That zinc is poisonous and will harm people and pets if swallowed. exanimo, ss

 

[rvbvetter]

Thats what I keep wondering about all the Zinc pennies that are leaching into our soil.
Isn't that seriously contaminating and poisoning our soil and perhaps our future crops?
Not to mention, our future generations. HH

 

[Klaatu]

Don't you love those zinc cents? Pure crap!

I find lots of these crap cents in that condition or worse. They start to disintegrate days after they are dropped depending on soil conditions. I recently found one that was over 75% disintegrated.

 

[BRD]

downindixie is absolutely correct. I've dug some of the zinc cents in the Hill Country here in Texas, where the soil is evidently very acidic,
and some of them will half disappear in a matter of years.
BRD