Again, I searched about 800 Cents that I pulled from loose change 10-12 years ago. I plugged a number of holes in my folders. This is a 2014 Zinc Cent in nice shape and the strike through is on the obverse. Most of the coins I looked at are in this condition as they never really circulated. I just pulled them with the intent that I would go through them later. Now it’s later but I still have thousands to go through and non of them are in rolls. Don’t worry but I have hundreds of rolls as well. I’m just working on the loose ones first. Lol Poor Abe, he got it right in the head, again.
Yes, no displaced metal at all and perfectly copper coated as well. I know that’s a stretch being perfectly copper coated but you get my meaning.
When in the process do they apply the copper coating? From your coin, I would think it was the last step and the strike thru happened before they applied the coating.
Zinc planchets are stamped, tumbled and then plated, is my guess. Then they will be coined into cents where the copper plate stretches. If something comes between the planchet and the hammer/anvil, it will create the absence of detail in the shape of whatever came between the two.
It's just that the coating is so thin and the indentation is so deep and there's no zinc showing. If it was struck after the coating is applied why didn't it breach the zinc layer? While I don't care for the zinc cents, this of course is an exception.
The planchets are coated then the coin is struck if I am correct. I don’t care for zinc cents either. The copper coating doesn’t show any breaks.
