This is straight from the mint out of a new coin roll. I have 6 of them with different amounts of whatever it is on them.
Show us the other 5. Also.. do you still have the roll? Looks like some environmental exposure damage to me.
Yeah I have the others and now I don't have the roll. I got 19 rolls from the bank last year and went through them. All of these was together one after another. I'll take a pic of the others and post them. There was a 7th one with very little of it on it and I wanted to see if it would wipe off and it will.
I've asked others on line about it and noone has see or heard of this before. I keep them in holders so the stuff doesn't wipe off. I was thinking it's maybe powder zinc.
Not environmental damage. environmental damage does not wipe off leaving the penny shiny. As I stated above, these came straight from the bank new in a roll. I wiped one and it wipes off easy. I know what environmental damage is. But thanks for the input.
What @cpm9ball said. Ew. Mildly interesting in that they got impaired in such a relatively short time after being made, but ... stuff happens. They got contaminated in storage somehow. Spend 'em, quick!
Damage also could mean exposure.. Look at the windows where you live. They sould be crystal clear. But all the outside junk in the air makes them dirty. That's is Environmental Exposure. When you wipe the windows clean they look better. You said you wiped your Cent and it looked shiney again. Same thing.. Got it?
Again! They came out of a new penny roll that way. It's a gray powder substance. They are not environmental damage. It's whatever they use at the mint that was left on them.
Ok here it is. We all just learned something new. I finally found what it is on the pennies. So evidently something that was supposed to happen didn't happen making these an odd error.
Have you ever considered that maybe, just maybe, some fool who worked for the distribution company, i.e. Brinks, Wells Fargo, N.F. String, etc., might have accidentally spilled or somehow broke open one of the ballistic bags of pennies thus scattering them on the floor prior to them being rolled and some of the coins were contaminated with whatever crap you conjured up in your mind from reading about it on BoobTube or somewhere similar? That, too, is considered environmental contamination, Mister Insister!
"straight" from the mint" but from the Bank ? The bank, as noted above gets their coins normally processed and rolled from Brinks, etc .... which then you don't know how long they've been in circulation, etc. Thus the importance of seeing the "roll" itself, and the other coins in the roll. otherwise you have already previously circulated coinage.
NO! It’s not ZnCl2. The zinc core would have to exposed for that to occur and there is no indication of the copper plating missing from your coins. There are also copper corrosion products that have a blue/green appearance like your first coin. You suggest that it’s due to something the mint left on the coins? The mint doesn’t put anything on the coins, not ZnCl2, not powdered zinc (an explosion hazard), and not NaOH. You also need to remember that the mint does not roll coins. They mint ships them to contractors in large ballistic bags that contain thousands of coins (I think it’s $4000/bag but am not positive). It’s the contractors who roll and distribute them. Lots of things can happen after the coins leave the mint. The ballistic bags could have gotten wet in transit or storage. Bags could rip and have to be cleaned up (Having personal experience with operators hitting 2200 lb bags of ceramic raw materials with the forks of a fork truck, I can say that it isn’t uncommon and it’s a pain to clean up). Your coins were just exposed to something before the contactor rolled them that caused environmental damage. Nothing more
