I was coin roll hunting yesterday and found this 1986 cent with bubbles here and there on the obverse...I think I may have found a coin with bubbles before, but certainly not this bubbled up. What do you guys think? Did this happen at the mint, or was he laying out in the hot sun all day? ( I've done that before ) Look at the big bubble in his ear
SURPRISE!…the Mint didn’t make them. A Contractor made them. Badly. …The Eighties were the “Trial an Error” period for the contractors to try and figure out how to copper-plate zinc planchets. They failed miserably, but kinda got on the right track going into the ‘90s. Imagine…paying contractors for over a decade to produce inferior results…yet another indicator of the total collapse of caring of the cent by the Mint. …imo…Spark