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<p>[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 735927, member: 66"]Theory:</p><p><br /></p><p>Since the cent normally didn't really circulate the Zincolns tended to go from the Mint to the bank to the store to the public to jars where they stayed safe and dry and survived.</p><p><br /></p><p>With the bad economy many of those cents are now coming out of those hoards and actually doing some circulating and being constantly exposed to moisture, salt, skin acids etc and this is causing the shortcomings of the zinc composition to become apparent.</p><p><br /></p><p>So it isn't anything new about the Zincolns, it's just we are now seeing what happens if they are really used like they were intended to be used.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 735927, member: 66"]Theory: Since the cent normally didn't really circulate the Zincolns tended to go from the Mint to the bank to the store to the public to jars where they stayed safe and dry and survived. With the bad economy many of those cents are now coming out of those hoards and actually doing some circulating and being constantly exposed to moisture, salt, skin acids etc and this is causing the shortcomings of the zinc composition to become apparent. So it isn't anything new about the Zincolns, it's just we are now seeing what happens if they are really used like they were intended to be used.[/QUOTE]
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