• When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.

A dime made of copper like a penny?
1 1

3 posts in this topic

Posted (edited)

Looks like environmental corrosion, possibly from being buried.

In the future, please show both sides and crop and rotate your photos. We don’t need all of that background. Don’t know why so many Newbies post photos upside down or sideways, they wouldn’t hang a picture on the wall that way.

Edited by Greenstang
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Without any further information and photos of the rev and the edge the best guess is simple environmental staining, as greenstang noted it may have been buried in the ground.  In the future if you want help you need to help us by providing good cropped in focus photos of all three sides of the coin, obv, rev, edge.   In addition the weight (to two decimal places), diameter, and thickness may be needed to give you a correct answer.   In the case of this coin there are a couple of real mint errors that can look like this but without a weight and the proper photos we cannot be sure.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
1 1