Could this be the 1983 struck on a copper planchet ?

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Corrosion always adds a little weight, it's science

 

I didn’t understand the now deleted pictures of the hacked up dirty, corroded cent that was shown. And whether it was referenced as a correct weight and all the verbal Drabble that went with it.

 

I was going to tell him to clean it submersed in muriatic acid for about 10 minutes. LOL

 

Of course there could be a zinc cent that was minted on a copper planchet in Philadelphia. I don't believe any have been found from there. But I have been wrong before.
1982-D small date copper
1983-D copper
1989-D copper
There have been a couple others and I think they are all from Denver.

 

What? That makes no sense.. I think you meant a 1983 copper cent minted at the Philadelphia Mint

 

copper and zinc Philadelphia mints make no sense. How would you chew them ?

 

Hold my beer...

 

Free Jaws, Paddy. Free Jaws....

And not Numismat's Jaws.

 

Hey anything can happen but its almost as unlikely as you believing coin talk members.

 

shoulda' just said ... Just get it graded by a top TPG and prove every one wrong !!

Rush submission, Discovery label, etc.

 

A copper cent weighing 2.7 grams would show much more wear than the one pictured above

 

The "white substance from the deterioration" is zinc rot plain and simple. Copper does not deteriorate like that.

 

Zinc rot is the metal becoming zinc oxide which is white. And as it forms the coin actually gets heavier because the zinc is still there and now it bonded with the oxygen so you get the extra weight of the oxygen.

 

Not trying to pick a spat with other members but maybe that's zinc showing on the fields of the obverse and also showing on the bust of Lincoln. Also, what's that showing above the Lincoln Memorial?

 

That is a damaged coin worth 1 cent.