What error is this?

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 Looks like acid damage. Those coins have zinc inside and copper outside, 

so something splashed on it and the copper got eroded. 

N#43 

Token collector [1600-1899] with some coins

What about the striations?

Jamais l'or n'a perdu la plus petite occasion de se montrer stupide. -Balzac

Mr. Midnight

What about the striations?

 

Quite typical for copper plated zinc coins.  https://en.numista.com/forum/topic156307.html#p1221923

oh yes, I thought I had read about that here, did not recall it had its own thread.

Jamais l'or n'a perdu la plus petite occasion de se montrer stupide. -Balzac

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