Reminds me of the three umpires talking... The first says "Well, I don't know about you, but I call them as I sees them" The second says "I call...
Hope springs eternal...
I got a cheap one too that looks like a knucklebone... [ATTACH]
He might have asked and just didn't mention it :)
People are notoriously lax in their verbal skills. We say penny when we mean cent, and we say copper when we mean brass or bronze. Both brass...
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But actually the copper of pre 1982 cents is not 100% copper. We still refer to it as copper though.
Perhaps just overly tired dies?
Attractive coin, post it in the "Post Your Lincolns" thread.
Drop it on a hard surface, silver will ring, this one will probably "thud".
Good attitude.
Could very well be mechanical doubling since it doesn't look particularly "rounded", but don't trust me, I'm sure others will chime in soon.
Lovely Indians, I really want a nice one, but for now, I do have this... [ATTACH]
What year is it? There is a lot of funky stuff that goes on with Zincolns that doesn't go on with other cents.
Thad is a chemist like me, and he allowed me to read his early copy of a book he is writing on Verdigris and he works for a metals fluids company...
you almost made me go back and look
I honestly thought VerdiCare was a way of stabilizing it...perhaps @BadThad can elucidate.
What a difference a few years makes... [MEDIA]
For any kind of copper crud, whether you want to call it BD or whatever, VerdiCare is a solution that, as far as I know, has no downside.
Sounds like BD to me.
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