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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;masterswimmer, post: 24681352, member: 102022&quot;]If I can chime in with my $.02.</p><p><br /></p><p>Copper and zinc are both very soft metals. </p><p>On the Mohs hardness scale where 1 is the softest and 10 is the hardest, both zinc (2.5) and copper (3.5) are in the 2.5 to 3.5 range. For the record, your fingernail is a 2.5 on the Mohs scale. </p><p><br /></p><p>That info should be enough to explain how incredibly easy it is for these coin metals to be manipulated and malleable enough to distort the devices on a copper/zinc coin to appear to the untrained eye as an error. </p><p><br /></p><p>Add to that, there is no way during the minting process for the distortions you&#039;re pointing out to occur. Hence the accurate assessment by [USER=44615]@paddyman98[/USER]&nbsp; [USER=111067]@expat[/USER] and [USER=43872]@Neal[/USER] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1574448[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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