Penny - Death by Minerlization

[TheElementOfSand]

Getting tired of finding pennies around here that look like this. Its a 1999 and its almost gone makes me worry that all the wheats are just dust and worm poop now.

 

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[Landlord Jim]

This is an example of a Zinc penny decomposing. Don't worry about the wheaties as they are brass or copper and don't decompose like this.

 

[albert]

Agreed w/ above

 

[TheElementOfSand]

Very good to know that my spot is not totally a lost cause. HH

 

[homefires]

LOL! The Zinc Copper penny turns into a battery when the Zinc is opened to the elements.

They go Fizzy on you.

 

[TheElementOfSand]

I work with small electronics all the time..had not thought of it becoming its own battery but it makes perfect sense. they basically preform their own poorly conducted electrolysis on themselves.

 

[lucyreed]

The penny is perhaps the most debatable coin in circulation, as it costs more than one cent to make one and no person likes the things. A sports store is so federal reserve up with them that the store owner has declared cents banned from the property.