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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;desertgem, post: 2913703, member: 15199&quot;]Welcome to the forum. Basically both answers given above are correct, but as you will find, the personalities of the members will vary a lot. In Amos&#039;s answer, the PMD he mentioned is Post Mint Damage&nbsp; and the die deterioration refers to the fact that as a die is used to make huge number of coins, it does slowly alter their surface and oddities show up, but because it is a normal&nbsp; event of time ( like our wrinkles) , it is not considered abnormal. Chris , who obviously doesn&#039;t like the newer cents that are a zinc core in copper coat because they are easily damaged and altered in normal circulation ( hard to find an older one still very nice at that age. He doesn&#039;t bite. </p><p>So keep looking and thanks for presenting the photos , many do not. Jim[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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