Quick question???

pepperpump

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Hello everyone once again!!! I have a question for everyone. I have attached a picture of a penny I found while metal detcting in a park...Nothing out of the ordinary with the park and ground but what could possibly eat up this penny???Any ideas???I look forward to hearing from everyone. Good luck hunting!!!
Pepperpump ??? ;D
 

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Pooley

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What year penny is it? ?Here in south central florida I have noticed that the zinc pennies deteriorate very fast, especially in sand and that is all we have here where I live. ?I have noticed the coins are really deep here, I found a 2003 quarter at 6 inches!!! ?
 

lonewolfe

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zinc pennies corrode/deteriorate and turn to dust pretty much after a while.

That's our Government for you,

too cheap to make pennies from copper anymore.

Just think, 20 yrs from now, you won't be able to find pennies older than 5 yrs old or so,

they'll all just dissapear (unless recently dropped)!
 

hollowpointred

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they dont last very long here in delaware either! i guess pennies really arent worth anything anymore! :-\
 

Colorado2

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Find alot of those in Colorado too. I think it has alot to do with the salinity in the ground. We were once part of the inland ocean in Colorado and salinity values are very high in some areas. Zincs are added to boat motors as an expendable part to handle the effects of electrolysis, thusly melting instead of more expensive engine parts. Why anyone decided to make coins with zinc content is beyond me, maybe a covert plan to fight inflation...(money that automatically disappears from the economy!) Too many geniuses and not enough blue collars! ;D
 

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mtl-huntr

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yep thats the story...found lots of zink like that ...nice to pull up a copper once and a while....
 

Klaatu

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Like CO2, I find a LOT of dissolved zinc cents here in Colorado. I have seen them in other parts of the country, too. Zinc cents were certainly not designed to last.
 

bk

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My detecting buddies refer to these as ALKA-SELTZER pennies.
 

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Oddfello

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I've seen similar pennies very brittle. I dug up a couple in the same hole under a pine tree. The ground was probably very acidic as I even got a few small pine cones up in the plug. The pennies looked like someone just broke pieces off the sides. That's here in W. Pa .
 

Leon

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bk said:
My detecting buddies refer to these as ALKA-SELTZER pennies.

That's a good one... ;D I'll have to clue my buddies in on it... " Hey, ya find anything? ,,,Na, just another Alka-Seltzer. ::) "
Most of the zincs I find in bad shape are, as with Oddfello, mostly around the pine trees her in Indiana... Might have something to do with the way the pine trees dispose of the acid rain... ???
 

poolboy

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yep have to agree!all the newer pennies seem to come out all ate up cheaper metal compostion,I'd say so too.
 

Emperor Findus Cladius

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I find those time to time myself, and if they are too corroded I just throw them away. I know where a zinc will hit on my DFX, so unless it is shallow (meaning newer and not as likely to be as corroded), I wont mess with digging it.
 

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Rich

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well for sure there is fertilizer damage?,...or maybe a abundance of salt if your in a area where it snows and salt is used on the roads and the areas you walk "sidewalk etc etc.."...
 

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pepperpump

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Thank you everyone for you replies...Good luck in hunting, I don't know about you all but I am hooked, line and sinker.
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