1982 Small Date

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• cmerlo1 Posts: 7,934 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 25, 2019 5:06PM

  You are correct.

  You Suck! Awarded 6/2008- 1901-O Micro O Morgan, 8/2008- 1878 VAM-123 Morgan, 9/2022 1888-O VAM-1B3 H8 Morgan | Senior Regional Representative- ANACS Coin Grading. Posted opinions on coins are my own, and are not an official ANACS opinion.

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• grip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 25, 2019 5:07PM

  Yes.

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• blitzdude Posts: 6,339 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 25, 2019 5:10PM

  Noice! Congrats

  The whole worlds off its rocker, buy Gold™.
  BOOMIN!™

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• Nscjohnson Posts: 103 ✭✭

  January 25, 2019 5:27PM

  @blitzdude said:
  Noice! Congrats

  Thanks! I ended up ordering a scale, so I can weigh my 1982 cents to determine which are copper. Dreaming of the elusive and near-mythical 1982D small cent...in copper!

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• JBK Posts: 16,153 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 25, 2019 7:11PM

  Don't forget to also look for a 1983 struck in copper on a prior year planchet.

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• Nscjohnson Posts: 103 ✭✭

  January 25, 2019 8:01PM

  @JBK said:
  Don't forget to also look for a 1983 struck in copper on a prior year planchet.

  Thanks for the tip. This is so much fun!!

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• rmorgan Posts: 249 ✭✭✭✭

  January 25, 2019 11:28PM

  This is my 'scale' for determining copper or zinc...
  

  Use pre and post '82 pennies to adjust the "teeter" so that copper tips it but zinc doesn't
  

  

  The scale cost me less than a dime :-)

  My strategy is about collecting what I intend to keep, not investing in what I plan to sell.

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• Nscjohnson Posts: 103 ✭✭

  January 26, 2019 10:41AM

  @rmorgan said:
  This is my 'scale' for determining copper or zinc...
  

  Use pre and post '82 pennies to adjust the "teeter" so that copper tips it but zinc doesn't
  

  

  The scale cost me less than a dime :-)

  Very clever! Had I not already ordered my scale to arrive today, I would have just used that! I also used my kitchen scale that doesn't weigh in increments small enough to catch a difference that small, in a different way to check. I put 4 non-copper pennies on the scale and it weighed 10 grams. Then I put 4 that I suspected to be copper on the scale, and it weighed 12 grams, so I know at least some were copper. The scale would show "10" until it reached "11" and "12" until it reached "13", so I can't know how many were copper. I was going to put 3 that I know to be copper on, and then add each of the 4 suspected by itself. But I was sleepy and decided to wait until today when my scale arrives.

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 26, 2019 4:40PM

  What were the results with your scale?? Inquiring minds want to know.... Cheers, RickO

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• Nscjohnson Posts: 103 ✭✭

  January 26, 2019 11:43PM

  @ricko said:
  What were the results with your scale?? Inquiring minds want to know.... Cheers, RickO

  Nothing good yet. Most of my 1982's are copper, but none of the1982 d small date ones sadly. I will finish them up tomorrow and start on the 1983s. Have a nice evening!

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• DBSTrader2 Posts: 3,492 ✭✭✭✭

  January 26, 2019 11:48PM

  Basing small vs large on the shape of the 2's has always helped me:

  

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• Nscjohnson Posts: 103 ✭✭

  February 4, 2019 8:03PM

  Thanks. I bought the cherry picker book for pennies and am still not seeing clearly some of the difference pointed out. Some are so minute and subtle. But I guess as I study more images, it will eventually click. Thanks again!

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