1971S 1c something really weird on memorial

Found this one. I soaked it in acetone, distilled water. Nothing happened. It looked like glue, or ink, but it's raised, and did not dissolve. On the far left bays the copper looks like doubled columns.

 

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Is it actually blue or is that your highlighting?

 

It's blue. That's why I thought it was ink. It is raised, and only in the bays

 

It's strange, my guess is marker of some sort...

 

Perhaps a permanent dye of some sort?

 

I soaked it in lighter fluid, then I soaked it in a new "California solvent" that's supposed to be "not unlike" Xylene. It's less blue now and I can see more clearly the marks inside the bays.
Maybe I'll warm it up in some soapy water next.

 

Better lighting is needed.

 

You could just ditch it and look at another cent

 

Here it is after the soap and water. No more blue stuff. It has something in the memorial still.

 

If the lines are still raised , I'd say it's probably some kind of epoxy .

 

I don't feel it came from the mint that way.

 

Someone dragged the point of a sharp stylus through each affected bay.

 

Mike that's what I thought till he said they were raised . To me the pics look like they took a small round dremel cutter and cut the center of the affected bays out .

 

Only the edges of the grooves are raised as the result of metal displacement. The floor is recessed. Since they're colored blue, I suspect the tip of a fine ballpoint pen was used.

 

Someone must have been pretty bored, or they were trying to set me up.. lol
It would be hard but not impossible to keep the pen just in the bays.
Thanks everyone

 

Fossilized copper worms. They fossilize fast.

 

gee that blue ink should have been a clue. I feel like a dummy. haha