Lamination error?

[scaupus]

 

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[coinguy*matthew]

Looks like environmental damage sorry.

 

[scaupus]

what causes damage like this? It's not bent, an impacT would have bent it, if only slightly. i pulled thousands of copper pennies, hundreds of wheats, this is the first. There was another wheat in the hole with it, and it was fine. moisture would have corroded it, and besides, I don't think moisture does this to bronze.

 

[huntsman53]

IMHO, I seriously doubt that the environmental damage caused the Lamination Error but it did cause the corrosion and pitting on the coin. More than likely the coin's planchet developed the Lamination Error before or after the being struck (minted) but long before the coin suffered the environmental damage.


Frank