Painted??

[atticus]

Hi All,

I'll try to get a scan done and figure out how to post pics soon. I bought a roll of 1982 pennies and one of them is all sputtered. Is it a common scan to spraypaint coins in order to pass them off as "BU"? Or is it possibly a plating defect? I know a pic is worth a thousand words, just wanted to throw that out and see if anyone's heard of this. I mean, why go through the bother of painting 82's (wasn't even a difficult version to find)?

Thanks

Atticus

[bman]

what do you mean by "Sputtered" and are they copper or zinc?

[atticus]

it's zinc and the coating looks splattered on, in that there are little blobs of copper all over the front and back. i'm working on a scan and will have one up soon.

[bman]

it's most likely bubbles under the copper coating but lets see the pics anyway