coin eating worms?

[Capa dirte]

I found this penny today. I know it sounds silly but can worms really eat coins?

 

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[NHBandit]

Very common with the garbage Zinc cents made after 1982. 50 years from now there will be nothing for our kids to find. Just part of our "new improved" disposable society. aka everything made from crap eventually turns back to crap... Nothing ate it. It's corrosion.

 

[pong12211]

Nope I would'nt say worms. Acidic soil is probably a better guess.

 

[BigWaveDave]

Very common with the garbage Zinc cents made after 1982. 50 years from now there will be nothing for our kids to find. Just part of our "new improved" disposable society. aka everything made from crap eventually turns back to crap... Nothing ate it. It's corrosion.

No. That is classic worm damage. Worms have struggled to survive for eternity, but now, with zinc to supplement their diets, they are thriving, and are now off the "species of special concern" list.

 

[NHBandit]

No. That is classic worm damage. Worms have struggled to survive for eternity, but now, with zinc to supplement their diets, they are thriving, and are now off the "species of special concern" list.

Shhhh.. the tree huggers will try to ban metal detecting because we are disturbing the worm habitat..

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Fertilzers with nitrates will eat post 1982 zinc cents like they were oatmeal cookies. Worms would not bother with our current coinage.

Even they have standards.

 

[Plug N Play]

You found a piece of ate.

 

[Capa dirte]

Hahaha

 

[digatab]

I found 100s of zincolns like that especially under pine trees.the needles will burn right through them.

 

[duggap]

I think one of those worms got into my saving account.

 

[Ant]

They become sacrificial earth zinc anodes, look it up.

 

[Ant]

Anode FAQs

 

[TheRingFinder]

To answer your question - No.

 

[cudamark]

I found this penny today. I know it sounds silly but can worms really eat coins?

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Take it down to a salt water beach so you can reunite it with all their brothers and sisters.

 

[tokameel]

No. That is classic worm damage. Worms have struggled to survive for eternity, but now, with zinc to supplement their diets, they are thriving, and are now off the "species of special concern" list.

The worms are starting the quest for Spice. Zinc must taste like it.
(See the film Dune)

 

[WilliamBoyd]

Since cremation became more popular, worms have less to eat than before.

 

[ivan salis]

note the whitish inner core --that means zinc centered --copper flash outside --zinc cent -- after 1983 cent coin -- acidic soil conditions rapidly eats away the ultra thin copper outer coating and eats the crappy zinc inner metal as well -- worms have better taste than to eat such horrible coins