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Help with 1982 Small or Large Date? Also a strange dollar error or what is going on ?
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Hi guys. Hoping yall can give me some help with a few coins? I have a 1982 D that Im trying to figure out if it is a large date or a small date? Then I have a Dollar that has a very bright gold background. Is this a chemical thing or a factory error?
Thanks in advance
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Im going to say the lincoln looks like a large date. I don't know anything about the dollar.
After another look I edited to change from small date to large date.
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Yup, the Lincoln looks like a small date, however, the dollar looks interesting !!!
Looks like someone tried to emulate a Reverse Proof Presidential dollar?
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That dollar is definitely different... was there special mint sets with reverse proofs? The pictures make the rim look proof like.... I am sure it could be done post mint... but that would be a major effort with little hope for return....Well, a competent jeweler could likely do it fairly quickly...but still I see no reason for it. Cheers, RickO
The dollar was plated after it left the mint. Various companies sell sets that have been plated various ways. There is usually no demand for such coins.
Thanks guys for the info. It is for my dad who found these.
Great to hear about the Penny. It weights 3.1 grams as well and he thinks it is a small copper date! We used 2 scales to weight it and 1 said 3.08 and the other one says 3.1
Do those details sound right as well?
Thanks
The cent is a large date, and the dollar was plated outside the mint.
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I went through the same exercise recently with what appeared to be a copper 1982D cent. I found a website that had close-ups of the two types and I was surprised at how similar they appeared (at least compared to LD/SD varieties of the 1960s and 1970s). Needless to say, I did not find the rare one.
That cent is a large date, not a small date as others have said. The dollar was messed with outside the mint.
Yes Lg date on the cent.
When looking at the 82/83 If the top of the "8" the same size as the bottom it's a LG, if the top of the "8" is smaller then the bottom it's a Small date.
SM date
LG date
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Good post type2.
Look also at the inside loop of the '2' to differentiate. On the Small date, it looks more like a question mark & bends outward towards the base, whereas on the Large date, the inside looks more like a hookuntil it hits the fatter/stubbier base.
That lincoln cent is a large date all day long.
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It looks like a large date on the cent, and also you might have a nasty sliver in your finger.
I have a 1982 D I am stuck not great condition and I had to photograph in negative to get the best close up what bothers me is the 8 seems to be too fat and the 2 seems to be thin and hooked like the small date tell me what you guys think
The large date is also much closer to the rim.
large date, and the $1 coin was done by one of those TV coin sellers
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