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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Oldhoopster, post: 8070368, member: 84179&quot;]Your coin has environmental damage. The copper plating is only 8 microns (0.0003 inches) thick.&nbsp; Once the surface is breached the underlying zinc can start to corrode (similar to rust bubbling up the paint on a scratched fender)</p><p><br /></p><p>Your coin looks like it was exposed to a weak acid or other environmental corrosive giving it that mushy, washed out appearance.&nbsp; It was not struck like that that, nor did it leave the mint in that condition.</p><p><br /></p><p>Keep studying the minting process.&nbsp; There are only certain things things that can occur during the minting process but there&#039;s an almost unlimited number of ways for a coin to be damaged after it leaves the mint.&nbsp; Just because it looks different doesn&#039;t mean it&#039;s an error.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regardless of what caused the damage, it is very easy to determine it&#039;s not a matte finish.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; As others have said, the matte finish was made using specially prepared dies and planchets.&nbsp; If the mint didn&#039;t make any matte finished cents in 2013, where did they get the die to strike your coin?&nbsp; Pretty much a no brainer.</p><p><br /></p><p>Everybody would love to tell you that you found something good.&nbsp; The problem is, nothing you posted is an error.&nbsp; The more you keep doubling down on &quot;but it looks like something&quot; even if it was <u>impossible</u> to occur at the mint, the more you&#039;re going to alienate the people that are willing to take the time and help you learn.&nbsp; Remember, you&#039;re not asking the guy at the end of the bar, who had a friend that collected coins in Jr high school.&nbsp; You&#039;re getting answers from people who have decades of experience in numismatics.&nbsp; [USER=44615]@paddyman98[/USER] for example, has been collecting errors for over 35 years!&nbsp; But maybe you are the luckiest new collector and all of the responses are wrong. Just something to consider.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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