Error Other | 1983 Mint Error?

[mike1911-A1]

Found this cent in bank roll per usual. Any comments? Thank you

[furryfrog02]

Looks like a die chip on the "9"

[mike1911-A1]

Thanks I don't know a lot at this point.

[jfines69]

Die chip on the date... Looks to have zinc rot underneath it

Zinc Rot: Zinc corrodes easily when exposed to the environment. When the plating is split on a copper-plated zinc cent, the zinc will often corrode under the plating, and push up on it creating a bigger and bigger fissure. Due to the strength of many of the hand-punched mint marks on pre-1990 business strike cent dies, this is a very common place on Lincoln cents for the plating to split and for this corrosion to take place.

The area north of BE in LIBERTY also appears to be zinc rot... The area south of the B is a linear plating bubble

Blistered Plating (also called plating bubbles): Gas bubbles that form under the copper plating on copper-plated zinc planchets. Gasses or contaminants that get trapped under theplating expand from the resulting heat and pressure during the strike, causing the plating to push up. These bubbles can vary widely in scope and appearance ranging from small scattered bumps to large elongated or “linear” blisters.

[TJ1952]

Plus a nice die crack on his head or spiked head, can't quite make it out.

[willbrooks]

Nice pick up on the spiked head, TJ. I agree it is a die chip on the date and a die crack starting at the Tim by WE and extending down through the head area, which is a common place for die cracks to form.

[JC Stevens]

If you email me your images and permission to use your images and your full name for the image credit I would like to add this die to our Cuds-on-Coins WEB site. I will need images of the full Obverse and Reverse of the coin. A close up of the full length of the Die Crack. It’s very important the images have the correct orientation for our WEB site. Also note any markers you find and a close up image/s of these.

JC