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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ikandiggit, post: 1165362, member: 16269&quot;]You&#039;re pic looks like a painting!</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m guessing you&#039;re asking about gas bubbles. Common on post 1982 cents.</p><p><br /></p><p>As explained by coppercoins:</p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black">&quot;...a&nbsp; common result of a problematic plating process used at least until 1988&nbsp; by the US Mint.&nbsp; It involves a mix of improperly washed planchets,&nbsp; contaminated plating material, and plating at the wrong temperatures.&nbsp;&nbsp; Your coin has gas bubbles trapped underneath the copper plating that&nbsp; welled upward when the coin was struck.&nbsp; There are tons of these in&nbsp; circulation, and in fact are difficult to avoid completely in some&nbsp; issues, especially in D mint coins from 1983-1986.&nbsp; They seem nearly&nbsp; impossible to find without this effect to some minor degree.&quot;</span></font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black"></span></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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