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Message:: [QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 4766705, member: 105098"]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.[/QUOTE]