Copper 1982 Small D Penny Prospect ?

The damage on the interior of the rims at K2 & K4 look like pitting on a zinc.

Best of luck.

Not to sound insulting but I'm not sure why you would waste your time and money on this. The seller claiming 3.11 grams means they _know_ about the 1982-D small date copper. Ask yourself why anybody in their right mind wouldn't have it certified and then submitted to a major auction house, instead of hawking it on whatever site you found it on. One of the two known sold on Heritage for $10800. It's like buying a lottery ticket from someone who already knows it's a losing ticket.

Post the text of the ad so that we have better information. Until then my conclusion remains - a seller posting the weight as 3.11g knows exactly what they're doing. They're just playing dumb. All I'm saying is don't be a sucker. If you've done this 20 times as you stated, you could have bought a $100 coin instead. But it's your money so whatever floats your boat.

Have fun looking and yes its possible that someones collection from grandpa or a nice one listed up as just a generic 1982-d cent without weight or error info listed with it might be a fun thing to grab to check. Noone is hassling you about that. Its just pointing out to probably avoid those sellers that are also listing the item as being 3.11g or mention the error as if they knew enough to weigh and list weight, and it could be that high value item, they should be attempting to authenticate it and then it will be worth a lot of money (unless they are listing weight for every cent but don't seem to know much about varieties or errors from their listings). Since there are only two and its unknown how many others even exist, its just one of the few bigfoots out there but not necessarily impossible. While your at is, maybe check out the info on other 1982/1983 cent varieties and errors and you can look for those at the same time.

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Yeah no big deal really, in future posts about your coins,
maybe wait till you have the coin in hand, post good pictures
and be able to weigh the coin, instead of trying to speculate just from
photos you see on ebay...

I have truly checked hundreds of 1982-D small dates LMC's
and I made sure I checked all the necessary requirements first.

Its too bad its unknown how many are out there...it makes people want to search but at the same time may not have any out there to find.

Enjoy the hunt, I wouldnt mind searching them when I'm searching cents in general such as pocket change, bulk jars, and unsearched collections you might get access to. But otherwise I'd suggest just
avoiding those that have the weight listed already and are experienced seller, it makes no sense why they would not then take a single added step to verify a coin that could be worth a lot of money. The only exception is maybe someone like a wife selling a husband who died stuff type of situation imo, or grandpas unsearched jar of cents he put away 30 years ago or they found in an attic. Or a seller always lists weight of coin but does not seem experienced with errors/varieties at all. That is also possible where a coin shop/dealer doesn't have time or care to look for those and therefore can cherrypick those looked over.

I enjoy the hunt Datadragon,never know whats coming in the mail,999 times wrong but only need 1 right and buying 99 cents to 5 bucks basement bargain bin stuff I have found a few good ones but nothing huge but like I posted only buy if there is a return policy,no return policy you get what you buy and are stuck with it,you can literally buy a $1000 coin or more,get it home and look at it,if you don't find the rare one just send it back no harm done,money back.