picked up 10 rolls of pennies from the bank today

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• InternetJunky Posts: 2,329 ✭

  March 23, 2011 3:36AM

  Yea I did a $25 box search a few weeks ago which yielded about 15 wheats and a few candian cents. Only about 20% of the box was copper (just basing that off of the looks of the copper zip-lock bag vs the zincoln bag that is goin back to the bank.

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• SaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 23, 2011 4:27AM

  I sifted my paws through $100 worth of cents since Saturday and have turned up about 45 wheats, earliest a '17-D, a couple from 1920, a 1930, some mid 1930's and mostly '40's and '50's though. About 35% of the cents are pre-82s. Also found seven GVI cents from Canada, the earliest a '41. Otherwise on Canada cents I only keep the pre-1965 QEII YH for my collection, the other pre-1996 bronze go into the bronze pile for retirement. I usually get about a hundred of them for the bronze pile. So many I do not even separate them from the USA stuff. I live fairly close to the Canadian border and see quite a few Canadians, the earliest I have gotten in cent box searches is a 1920, but the best is the rare 1925 I got last year.

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• BBN Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭

  March 23, 2011 4:29AM

  I need educated. How do you tell the copper from zinc from 1982?

  
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• lkeigwin Posts: 16,893 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 23, 2011 4:35AM

  Weigh them.
  
  Edited to add: copper 3.11g, zinc 2.50g
  Lance.

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• BBN Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭

  March 23, 2011 4:39AM

  cool. Thanks!

  
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• ambro51 Posts: 13,949 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 23, 2011 4:40AM

  just drop those 82s on a hard tabletop. the ring will tell you which is which. copper rings, zinc dosent.

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• pmac Posts: 3,189 ✭✭✭

  March 23, 2011 4:42AM

  
  
  << <i>I need educated. How do you tell the copper from zinc from 1982? >>
  
  
  I've found that many of the zincolns have corroded somewhat. I'm sure the mint has noted this and might consider the composition of future coins. To answer your question, those with corrosion are not copper. I've also found after handling many cents that you can almost feel the difference in weight (this might also be my imagination - telling the difference between 2 & 3 grams).

  Paul

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• secondrepublic Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭

  March 23, 2011 6:29AM

  
  
  << <i>just drop those 82s on a hard tabletop. the ring will tell you which is which. copper rings, zinc dosent. >>
  
  
  
  agreed. drop them on a wood table/desk and you'll tell the difference. copper rings, the zinc is more of a thud.

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