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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Neal, post: 4154183, member: 43872&quot;]We are not doubting that it has been in that roll since 1915 or 1920.&nbsp; But in the 13 to 18 years between 1902 and 1915 or 1920 there was plenty of time for the coin to have been exposed to the ground, to water, to acid, or to a number of different elements.&nbsp; It may have already been in that condition when the bank put it into the roll (they would not have been concerned with its condition) or chemicals already on its surface may have caused further reactions during the decades it sat in the roll until you found it, even if the roll itself were kept in ideal storage conditions. Certainly the coin was not originally put in the roll in high grade because, even without the corrosion, there is plenty of wear.&nbsp; Therefore, it had already led something of a rough life in its time in circulation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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