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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 3365119, member: 77814&quot;]since post 1982 pennies are an 8 micron thick layer of copper plated onto a zinc core.&nbsp; This was done due to cost and because they make coinage for commerce, not collectors. But us whacko collectors still persist.&nbsp;&nbsp; That thin layer presents a whole host of problems with the plating rising due to some corrosion of the zinc core, or a variety of other situations.</p><p><br /></p><p>What you see is a plating blister.&nbsp; It happens to be next to the 2.&nbsp; It happens that you want to correlate it to looking like another 2.&nbsp; But it&#039;s not.</p><p><br /></p><p>But is the plating blister normal?&nbsp; YES.</p><p><br /></p><p>here&#039;s another misc blister ... referenced as a &quot;spitting lincoln&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/1991-cent-spitting-lincoln.332971/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/1991-cent-spitting-lincoln.332971/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/1991-cent-spitting-lincoln.332971/</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]892497[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>of course, he&#039;s really not spitting and there is no &quot;spit die&quot; to create this.</p><p><br /></p><p>Blisters and surface irregularities on these cents can get really, really bad.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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