Opinions Please

I would like to hear the opinions of CT members as to what caused this on the reverse. I know it's damaged, I want opinions on why. Please list your reasoning. I took 4 different angles to show the reverse as best as I could. I'm only showing the reverse at this time. Thank you for your input.

 

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FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!

...at least, I've seen that sort of damage after exposing a copper cent to high heat. The copper oxidizes in thick layers that then flake off.

I could be wrong, of course, but that's my guess.

 

Was in a urinal on a urinal cake for too long

 

Time will tell my good man.

 

It looks like some kids tried everything but shooting it.

 

1,200 degrees or so with a pencil torch...butane...right after the zinc started getting liquefied but before the thin copper started to really change shape. Now if the penny isnt a zincoln, whatever.

 

It's copper but there is no date.

 

Still looking for more input on what caused this damage.

 

I used sunlight and a big Fresnel lens. On a brilliantly clear summer day, it can make a Zincoln pop, as the zinc inside reaches its boiling point. With copper, though, it's really tough to actually melt the coin; instead, you get layers of copper oxide that flake off, leaving a coin that looks a lot like the OP's.

 

Stuck in cast iron pipe coming from your sink drain causing your sink to drain slow.

 

Used as a cap for a crack pipe, and heated with a lighter

 

some little girl lost it whilst visiting a petting zoo.
A camel then duly ate it and it went through it's stomachs.
At which time it came out the other end
of which that dung dried and someone use it to start a fire.

Then some little kid picked it out of the ensuing pile of $%^&
and used it to buy ice cream after licking it to see what it tasted like (the cent, not the ice cream).

And thus it entered circulation again.
and it's now in your hands.
Do you really want to touch that cent again ?

 

Well, yo'all do have me laughin. I'm inclined to think heat damage.

 

get a second hobby...

 

Why not.. I have about 5 hobbies I am really involved with. Nothing wrong with that!

 

@Collecting Nut
I'm not sure what caused what we are seeing but it definitely did not occur at the US Mint.

 

I have coins, rocks, gems, minerals and fossils. Plus antiques, gardening and a few other hobbies. How many more would you like me to get?

 

This is something I did back in 1976 when I was a little kid. My grandparents didn't like the marks the fireworks snakes would leave on the cement that we would light during the 4th of July. So I got this idea to put the little snake firework on a penny so it wouldn't leave the black little mark on the cement. It worked. No more little round black burn mark on the cement.

For those who don't know what the firework snake is: