my coin is sick with measles

Hello again all. I have a ton of crazy looking coins, but this one is weird and the last one for tonight. this has copper colored bumps all over it, on both sides; is this anything that happened at the mint? if so what is it please? Oh and daughter found this toooooo.

 

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environmental damage. did she find it in the parking lot ? or in the ground ?

 

these are all raised bumps
they were in a roll

 

ye I am new but thesere not from being run over they look like miny boils

 

not cud but the other stuff that I am not familiar with

 

basically looks like it was super heated to where the outside started to boil

 

sorry guys I guess the photo does not do it justice unless you were maybe able to enlarge it...... :-( I can try again later thank you though!!!!!

 

This is the quality of us coinage these days. Give it half a century and you won't find a penny in good condition dating early 90s

 

Partly due to the copper clad zinc it's made out of zinc corrodes easily and gets pits and bumps the coins of today are real crap in my opinion

 

Well at least they don't have a made in china stamp on them.

 

What you see going on with this coin is a plating issue. Beginning in 1982, the Mint started using copper plated zinc planchets. It's not uncommon at all for those coins to have plating bubbles and sometimes they cover the entire coin. You can read about it here-
http://www.error-ref.com/BlisteredPlating.html

 

Exactly!

 

Surprised the government hasn't sent that to china too cause its cheaper

 

It's getting to the point that you can almost buy Chinese counterfeits cheaper than the mint can produce the real ones.

 

here is the best views I can do. thanks all!!!!!