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Found this one today. I thought it was a steel at first.

The edge seems to be copper colored. But not a lick of copper on the O ro R.

Comments?

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are you sure it is zinc ?

could it be an off metal coin ?

it just got in contact with something acidic that ate off the coloring and/or copper coating

Does it almost look blue? because I just got a 1983 that looks alot like that.

E, I have come across a few of these guys before....I just dismiss them as crap and send them back to the bank. may be my loss?

I can't imagine what kind of acid would remove copper cleanly without making the zinc fizzle away as a toxic gas. Like you say , It would have to be chemical to clean that O and R.

HHHMMM???

Well, it only costs 1c to keep it. I'll just throw it into the bucket of wierd stuff.

The beauty of sorting cents: you can't lose. Like you observed though, you would think an acid would have tore up some of the detail.

The cent has good detail.

i think a few cycles in a dryer will take most of the copper coating off.

not sure - but another theory anyways.

Did you weigh it? I've ran across a couple like that....ended up dumping them. Maybe a mild acid.....like acid rain. Picture ain't great but there does seem to be some type of damage to the surface. Post mint I think!