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Valued Member
United States
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Hello, 1st post...hope it works. Just wanted to get started on this site and try to figure out how to use it. Couldn't find a better way than showing a coin I found the other day. kind of funny when I saw it. Let me know if you have seen any like it. WHO SAID YOU CAN'T SPIT ON A COIN? THANKS   |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Welcome to CCF. The Spit as you refer to is separation on the copper plating from the zinc planchet by gas under the plating. The bubbles get moved and can happen on obverse or reverse. Just a common occurrence on plated Cents.The first years after the 1982 forward years there was also a problem with rinsing of the planchets before plating. These left a look of zits/sand/ or common referred to as orange rind look on them.  The bubble happen on fields or devices, just were there is a problem with the gas under the plating. |
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 United States
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Thanks COOP, I knew very little about the gas bubbles but never seen one like this one. Thanks for the details, it definitely helps......I'm learning as I go.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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DU="double ugly" I like your grading sytem.  Coop, any guess what will become of the "Zincolns" after perhaps 40 years of circulation--will they be reduced to a grimy, corroded mess?  Edited by KurtS
09/14/2008 2:37 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Or copper plated hershey's Kiss wrappers? I don't know how much Zinc the body needs, so they may be taken as zinc tabs?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Welcome flyagi. Those gas bubbles had me going when I started looking at Lincoln cents.
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United States
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Thanks rock, I have seen a few of them with worse bubbles but this was the one that got my interest.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Kurt says - Coop, any guess what will become of the "Zincolns" after perhaps 40 years of circulation--will they be reduced to a grimy, corroded mess? Well, I'm not Coop and hope I'm not out of line here, but I can give my opinion on this subject. After a number of test counts and careful analysis it appears that the cents from 1982-1988 are diminishing much more quickly than those of more recent years. Part of the reason for this is the subject of this thread. They didn't really get the whole plating thing down until nearly a decade after they started the process. Coin for coin with mintage and survivability in mind, there are nearly double the 1981 cents remaining in circulation as there are 1983 cents. 1984 is even worse, and 1986 will likely be a semi key date to the Memorial cent series by then. If I were going to hold onto au-bu memorial cents for the sole purpose of having valuable cents some day, I would be hanging onto all the zinc issues from 1982 through 1988. My estimation is that they will all be quite scarce in change within 40 years. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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What do you think about hanging on to the copper 1982 cents?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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The copper memorials will have a pretty good survivability- just look at how cheaply you can get Wheaties so I see no reason why 82 coppers will be rare or hard to find any time soon.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I would keep any Philly mint small date 1982 cent in AU or better. None of those had a very high mintage and survivability seems low for the zinc version.
Copper (actually brass) cents likely will not see much if any numismatic gain - too many of them, made of a stable metal, currently being hoarded because of metal content, etc. etc....all the signs are bad that these will ever achieve much value in any grade below MS68. Only keepers in the bronze/brass Memorial cents would be the 1960 small date, 1970S small date, possibly 1967, 1969, and 1971 plain, and any die variety. The rest are junkers.
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