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Message:: [QUOTE="Spark1951, post: 7997144, member: 90692"][USER=120932]@Newb2coins[/USER]   Yes, helpful to state/ask a specific question and include all the pics, including close-ups, to get members to assess without guessing. All the defects have been addressed:  poor surface with grainy bubbles on both sides which will eventually rupture and the coin will disintegrate.  And split-plate doubling on both sides means the surface has already been ruptured during the manufacturing process, meaning: it is only a matter of time before you don’t have a coin anymore.  Most folks don’t like the copper plated cents precisely for this reason…they were poorly designed and poorly made. Shield cents are made with better planchets that took a long time to achieve, but the Mint still continues to produce crappy coinage by using deteriorated dies long past their useful lives. You can mitigate the self-destruction aspect by carefully choosing well struck coins and putting them in flips or airtites, but they probably aren’t worth the trouble or expense.  Getting them into protection means attempts at conservation/preservation, and there are few that merit that level, to me only known varieties like an ‘84 double ear, an ‘88 with a Reverse of ‘89 or Close AM or Wide AM types.  And, of course, there is putting it into a flip just because you like the look of it because it has pretty toning…Spark[/QUOTE]