Errors or just dirty?

Hi gang!
Would you consider these coins missing clad layer errors or just dirty coins in need of a brush?
Thanks!

 

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Just oxidized. Looks like they may have been lost in the wild.

 

Welcome to Coin Talk. Environmental damage. Ask @paddyman98 to show you pictures of how many coins he found metal detecting that look just like that.

 

Environmental Damage.. You can't get them to look the way the did when they were minted so don't even bother. Even Nickels which have no clad layer become affected to exposure to dirt, soil, sand and water.

Here are my metal detected finds -

 

Dirty,just get a brillo pad and scrub it until it shines

 

Envirodamage.

 

I just slipped a few of those into a parking meter.

 

Only if you wish to spend it. Your coins have environmental damage, are common, spendable, and have little chance of satisfactory numismatic improvement due to so-called safe cleaning methods. Harsh cleaning will destroy the value of a collectible coin.

 

Looks like coins were in a wishing well or in water for a period of time Not really sure?

 

Probably buried just beneath the soil's surface.

 

Damaged by the environment. It doesn't matter what you do with them they will always be worth face value.

Welcome to CT.

 

Welcome to the neighborhood. Pet Boo for me. As mentioned, environmental damage. Spenders for sure.

 

I find these type of coins in my yard all the time. I have a pretty good idea how they got that way and where they are coming from. People walk their dogs all the time and they doo in our yard. After the dropping decompose over time, sometimes things are left behind. A lot of time it's coins. And being deposited that way and after a cold wet winter, this is exactly what the coins look like.

 

Thanks for the info everyone!!!