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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jeepfreak81, post: 24987082, member: 93888&quot;]Hey all, I&#039;ve got this 1943 Canada 5 Cent piece as seen below.&nbsp; There&#039;s a few things I see going on here that might be nothing at all, or perhaps they are something.&nbsp; Something interesting that is, not earth shattering or wallet filling.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anywho - The coin has plenty of dings and hits on it, but there&#039;s two things that stand out.&nbsp; The first is the area that looks like a projectile exiting from ol&#039; George&#039;s nose.&nbsp; It appears to be &quot;pitted&quot; here a bit and isn&#039;t consistent with dings and hits, it&#039;s almost as if the metal had some porosity there perhaps?</p><p><br /></p><p>The other thing I&#039;m wondering about is does this coin appear to have been struck on a planchet with some poorly mixed alloy.&nbsp; I THINK I can see &quot;lines&quot; or a grain in the metal so to speak.&nbsp; It&#039;s more obvious on the reverse to me because it has less distracting dings and dents.&nbsp; It travels diagonally from the lower right leaf up through 43, and towards the center of the coin at the top.&nbsp; Similar on the front however going the opposite direction (because it&#039;s the opposite side, duh).</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe it&#039;s nothing, but I&#039;m trying to get better at picking out such things when I notice them so feedback is appreciated.&nbsp; Also, this coin is made of Tombac which is an alloy made of 88% Copper and 12% Zinc.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1601531[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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