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<p>[QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 2249329, member: 42773"]One slab has a 1982 Lincoln cent, for my small US cent collection. Now, this is how a collector of ancients collects modern coins. I bought this cent because 1982 was the first year they went to copper-plated zinc, or steel, or whatever it is, and the plating process was not perfected. So occasionally you find these third-world coins with lots of bubbles on the surface - air between the core and plating. This one was the bubbliest I could find...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]444827[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 2249329, member: 42773"]One slab has a 1982 Lincoln cent, for my small US cent collection. Now, this is how a collector of ancients collects modern coins. I bought this cent because 1982 was the first year they went to copper-plated zinc, or steel, or whatever it is, and the plating process was not perfected. So occasionally you find these third-world coins with lots of bubbles on the surface - air between the core and plating. This one was the bubbliest I could find... [ATTACH=full]444827[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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