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<p>[QUOTE="Danjohnson, post: 2744808, member: 80228"]Those are Zincolns, zinc with a thin copper coating. Normal for them to self-destruct over time, just another result of debasing the money supply (traditional copper mix is too expensive to represent the value of our penny any longer). </p><p><br /></p><p>I find them with my metal detector all the time and wouldn't even bother digging them up, but they share a signal and tone with gold so... Dig them, I must![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Danjohnson, post: 2744808, member: 80228"]Those are Zincolns, zinc with a thin copper coating. Normal for them to self-destruct over time, just another result of debasing the money supply (traditional copper mix is too expensive to represent the value of our penny any longer). I find them with my metal detector all the time and wouldn't even bother digging them up, but they share a signal and tone with gold so... Dig them, I must![/QUOTE]
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