Don't understand why anyone gives a hoot about any modern zinc cents. I would never judge anything one decides to collect but with zincolns I have to wonder why.
I can say this for sure. The coin roll that they came in was not wet or show wet marks, these where not at the end of the rolls, and these was the only ones like that and I find it odd only the obverse of the coins are like that. But I guess anything is possible.
ok so, it's a cent, it's got something on it, there were 7 of them with varying degrees of that "something" on them, and it wipes off. Congrats, you've found a lincoln cent, value 1 cent each. no different than me spilling coffee on a penny and wiping it off. it's not an error or a variety, it's a contaminant exposure in the supply chain even if it came out of a brand new roll. maybe the armored carrier that does the rolling and distribution to the banks just got done re-rolling circulated cents and there were some really oxidized ones in there, and the dust was left in the hopper, then they dump in a balistic bag of new cents to roll and those first few coins get covered in zinc oxide on one side, maybe it happens just after they rinse out the hopper and it's a zinc oxide sludge. in the end it's not a mint error, or anything collectible. it's a supply chain issue. the mint doesn't even make the cents in house, they are formed and plated at their supplier and the mint just stamps the design and sends it out to the distributors. and if it wipes off, it's certainly not an error.
Do you think it could be possible that the coins could have been exposed to poor environmental conditions prior to being rolled? Maybe while the bags were warehoused at the mint? Being loaded/unloaded from the truck? During transportation? During warehousing prior to being rolled? Bags damaged by fork trucks? Or numerous other things that could have occurred during the weeks/months between the time the mint struck the coins and delivered them to the contractor to the when the contractor actually rolled them? Insisting that an undamaged paper roll proves that the coins were not damaged after they left the mint is...well...um....let's just say that it's not very convincing
Boy, wish I had the time and energy to keep telling a member the same thing, over and over again when the correct answer was given in post #7.
Have you ever bought a bag of chips and ate a bite or two? The next thing you do is wipe your hands. I believe that is somewhat similar to what muzzman is trying to explain paddyman. The residue is on the coins, in the roll, from the mint! I get it muzzman thanks for posting it I learned something from your post.
som eday wanna get one of these, or dimes, and go through looking for some tasty errors...lol back when i was 10-13 i used to get 50.00 baggs and search, but most were just normal ones
On October 1, 2001 a truck from the Denver US MINT was traveling to the Federal Reserve Bank of San Antonio when it crashed and spilled 7.6 million pennies ($76,000 worth) on the roadway. They picked them all up and finished the delivery. On Sept 18, 2008 another truck crashed going from Philadelphia to the Federal Reserve Bank of Miami. The truck was carrying $180,000 worth of nickels. They picked them all up too. So ... if the coins get scratched on the road .. is that just considered road rash or bag marks ? lol how are they labeled if they get slabbed ? lol
