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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 3907159, member: 77814&quot;]The main thing you see is total discoloration.</p><p><br /></p><p>We happen to see that all the time .. as in <u>*all*</u> the time.</p><p>So when we see these type of coins we&#039;re trying to think of what specifically the question is.&nbsp; You didn&#039;t state &quot;different color&quot; .. so it leaves our imagination to try and figure out what you are asking.&nbsp; <i><b>You know</b></i> what you are asking but you didn&#039;t elaborate <i><b>to us</b></i> what you are thinking .. even though the color would be my first <u>guess</u>.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This coin was in circulation for 13 years before it came to you.</p><p>You didn&#039;t find it in the ground, but that doesn&#039;t mean it wasn&#039;t found in the ground once, or twice, or even 5 times.&nbsp; Simply because no one knows the exact history of the presented coin.&nbsp; For all we know, it could have been flushed down a toilet and founds it&#039;s way out ...&nbsp; coins are made of metal and, just like a car with no paint on it, it can rust and corrode (just like polished unpainted steel will turn this same rust type color fairly quickly out in the environments).</p><p><br /></p><p>But as Spark above gave a few potential examples it could have been it is simply &quot;damaged somehow, sometime(s), someplace(s) in the wild&quot;.&nbsp; Being at a laundromat one could guess heat damage.&nbsp; How many times have you heard the jingle of coins in a rotating drum?&nbsp; They get past the lint trap and stuck between drums and then all sorts of damage can occur there depending up how long before they were cleaned out.</p><p><br /></p><p>But the key is .. since we really do not know &quot;how it got discolored&quot;, you simply have to accept that it &quot;did get discolored by some non-USMint discoloration process&quot; thus it is generically called &quot;environmental damage&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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