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Pillar of the Community
United States
1116 Posts |
I have been in the habit of keep all 1982 copper coins separate from all others.
I am really interested to hear what other roll searchers are doing with theirs.
Do you keep the separate or do you combine all copper together regardless of date?
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Moderator
 United States
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A timely post:  I just went through my small bucket that I toss change in to sort later. I separate and roll cents as follows: - wheat cents - steel wheat cents (no rolls so far  ) - other copper cents - zincolns |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I separate all my pennies by year.. then roll them in the years... The big plan is to then go through year by year looking for varieties and errors... get familiar with one year and move on to the next....
Currently... since they discontinued the penny here in Canada.. I'm just trying to get as many rolls as possible.. sources are drying up a bit for me I'm afraid..
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Valued Member
United States
88 Posts |
I keep a digital scale handy, so I can weigh all of my 1982's. Both types of copper's and zinc were minted during that last year of the copper ones. I'm not keeping any of the zinc's. I dump all of them at the bank, and keep all the copper for scrap value. I do watch for key dates and known errors though.
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Pillar of the Community
1325 Posts |
fill a container with the 82 and another with 82D and when one gets full see which is copper, and which is other.
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Valued Member
United States
330 Posts |
I put all of mine in a 5 gallon bucket, regardless of date and mint mark.
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
12842 Posts |
All of my '82 coppers get tossed in the glass jar I keep my LMCs in.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
1116 Posts |
My usual practice is as I sort down a box is to put all '82 coins in a tray and then when I'm finished sorting out the pre='82 then weigh the '82's and roll the copper and put those coins in a penny box that contains nothing but '82 copper pennies.
In a box of pennies I usually end up with just over one roll of copper '82 pennies. It takes awhile to finally put together a '82 box of copper pennies. I only have 2 and half boxes of '82 copper pennies.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4809 Posts |
99%+ are returned to circulation. I'll only keep the occasional high grade coin and all 1982 D LD zincs.
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Valued Member
United States
115 Posts |
i just throw em with all my coppers.
including s mintmarks and errors
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New Member
United States
17 Posts |
I only keep 1981 and before. When (if) copper pennies become rare enough to warrant me to spend time to weigh each 1982 penny then I will do that, but I am getting enough copper from rolls that that isn't needed at the moment.
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Posted 09/02/2014 02:09 am
