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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;coppercoins, post: 1451, member: 152&quot;]The most likely actual story for this poor cent is that it suffered from gas bubbles in the copper plating which came open with circulation.&nbsp; The exposed zinc core combined with the oxygen and moisture in the air (or ground) to form zinc-oxide, which is a white, powdery substance.&nbsp; Given that the ZnO changes form from metal to powder, it simply fell out of the openings in the copper.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have seen many examples of such coins, rotted out from the inside, but have not seen one so severely damaged to date.&nbsp; Interesting piece, but not a shotgun victim.&nbsp; You shoot a coin in the air and it&#039;s going to come back down in the next county looking like it was shot.&nbsp; Bent, scraped, holed, and severely mis-shapen.&nbsp; A person would have had to have shot that at less than five or ten feet to get a spread like that on a coin, which likely would have blown it completely apart.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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