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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 3930982, member: 77814&quot;]I don&#039;t really know all the answers .. as in PLURAL.&nbsp; A coin, such as this one which has been in the wild for 54 years can have more than one particular thing happen to it over it&#039;s life time.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>==&gt; split plating is often used for the copper plated zinc core cent of 1982 and newer.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you look at the below.&nbsp; You can clearly identify rim wear - the copper color showing through.&nbsp; You can also see the rim which got pushed down also got pushed up to the lower part of the O in dollar.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1036052[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>If you think about it, if a coin is used in a vending machine, or gets stuck in the cycle of a laundry mat coin feeder/change machine being used over and over again, a coin can get a tremendous about of edge wear with metal getting pushed all over the place.&nbsp; I think that&#039;s the majority of what is happening here all around the edge on both sides.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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