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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 3111243, member: 66&quot;]I have seen that sort of surface damage on coins that have been recovered from sewers.&nbsp; Why it should form that pattern I&#039;m not sure unless the coin was covered with a layer of &quot;muck&quot; that subsequently dried and cracked (you can see a similar type of cracking pattern in dry earth) and then was resubmerged in a corrosive environment.&nbsp; The caked on muck would tend to protect the surfaces it covered while the exposed areas in the cracks could than be eaten away.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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