I have this penny..... It is very weird! Is it acid wash 1980's style? Do I have to get my old pairs of stone-washed jeans out again, tight roll them and look dumb?:mouth: I have done it before.....God I hope not. Anyways, It has a double look to it above the head and on the rev. below the Memorial. What do you guys think? Is it a kind of Die anomaly?
The images are a little small. Nevertheless, I think I see two things, that the coin was soaked in acid (thus the acid bite marks) and there's some DDD on both the obverse and reverse.
Depends on how long it is in the bath and the acid used. Some ferric chloride for a few minutes might do the trick...
What you have on the surface of the fields are a invasion of small gas bubles and the date is just Die detrioration the coin was not soaked in acid just plenty of little gas bubbles.The coin is a badly worn die on the obverse as well as the reverse JC
What ever this is I would like to know, but the pictures are too small. From what I see, I don't feel it is gas bubbles, but something post mint - a specific application of heat or chemicals. I have seen pics of some coins with weird bubbly forms that had everyone stumped, however Mike D. later felt was caused from heat. Of course it could be bubbles. We need bigger pics linked from somewhere - CT seems to resize the pics to postage stamps...
I agree that they are not gas-bubble. The top layer has the effect of a wavy-ness feel to it. It is very distorted compared to other pennies. Sorry about the pics, but since they changed over to the new format, my pics don't have good details like they used to.
The coin was absolutely soaked in acid. A mild acid will not eat away the copper too quickly. In fact the zinc under the copper would be more effected by a mild acid than the copper. If you take a copper cent, and a copper-plated zinc cent and stick them in a small bowl of vinegar for a few days, you can get an idea of what an acid can do. Put some plastic wrap over the top of the bowl unless you really like the smell of vinegar A stronger acid for a shorter period of time would create the effect seen above more quickly. Anyway...acid dipped for sure.
