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really? I had no idea, Do they have any real value? Do an ebay search for 1982 small date copper roll and see what comes up. Last time I looked (a year ago) there were 2 sellers of rolls. I think I paid like $30 for my roll. I was forced into buying a roll of them because I found like 3 of them nice enough for my roll set....and that's over years of searching. 82 SDC's in BU are RARE in circulation. |
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Jez, I just did the search and the only thing that came up was a 7 roll set. I also did a completed listings search and there were no 82 SDC rolls even sold. The SDZ rolls were selling at around $35....that would make the SDC rolls worth at least $50 IMO.
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I just about skim over the 82s, don't even weigh them anymore. 75% were coming up copper, 25% zinc. Just watching out for clear varieties or a nice BU which I haven't seen yet from rolls.
Just about ready to give up on the 83s also. Still weigh those though.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Interesting about the '82s...
From my first five boxes I kept every 82 penny to sort for the various types later. I still have those pennies... from five boxes, I have 16 rolls of 82 pennies... of those 16 rolls, 10 are copper, 6 zinc... of those 6 zinc rolls, most are large date Phillies, but there are about a roll of small dates, and I'd say most of those are Denver mints.
Bottom line... I have found all seven varieties in circulation... of course not all are BU but I've found a few in each variety that are BU. They aren't real common, but they're out there.
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How many SDC philly coins did you yield?
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While I haven't looked at the 82 coopers for SD I will say that nice 82 zincs in any variety is slim pickings. I've found maybe a dozen overall "barely" worth keeping.
Thanks for the SDC tip though. I'll be sure to seperate those out when the time comes. Pity we don't have pop counts on the different ones.
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12/01/2011 10:49 am
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My SDC finds ran about 5%, by far the majority are LDC. I'm not missing out on anything by dumping them back into circulation am I?
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Bedrock of the Community
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How many SDC philly coins did you yield? I'd say a fair number, maybe 10% in total. Not all were BU mind you, but a few were. I had kept all of them, so it was easy to look back on those particular coins. |
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I came by this 2000 p while roll searching and I was wondering if any one could let me know whether or not this is a WAM. The gap is not alot but this is the first I've seen with a gap at all. Thank you  |
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Large date '82 copper and zinc is by far the most common. Small date doesn't command much of a premium now, but perhaps someday they will. Now is certainly the time to hoard the blemish-free higher grades in all of the small date '82 Lincoln pennies, in my opinion.
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Quote:I came by this 2000 p while roll searching and I was wondering if any one could let me know whether or not this is a WAM. The gap is not alot but this is the first I've seen with a gap at all. I do not think this is a WAM. The gap between ME would be the same (or narrower) as AM gap on a WAM. The AM gap on this is caused by die wear. You will want to look at the closeness of the designer initials to the right base of the Memorial; this is an accurate indicator... far FG is CAM, close FG is WAM. |
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Sorry, yuengling101, not a WAM. Yeah I agree the sometimes little gaps are deceiving... I read somewhere that after a while some of the dies "settle" a bit and some spacing of the letters can occur this way. You should learn the spacing of the designer's initials as verification of a true WAM. The more boxes you go through, the easier it is to find any "different" error coin. WAMs though are difficult because you see the different spacing in the different years... but at the same time, this can help... just use an earlier date penny to see what the wider spacing looks like for the '99 and '00 WAM. But learn the designer initials spacing... it's really good verification for WAMs. |
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Box #16:
10x1940s;
7x1950's;
Box #17:
1x1938;
11x1940's;
7x1950's;
Box #18:
2x1937;
3x1940's;
8x1950's;
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Thank you merc. yuengling - I would say that is NOT a WAM. The space between the A and the M should appear the same as the space between the M and E. Also, look a the initials FG at the lower right corner of the memorial. WAM initials will be close, CAM the initials will be further away. Compare yours with a cent prior to 1992, and a cent after 93. Those two will show you the distances. Also, type WAM and CAM in the forum Search box. Or check out Coppercoins.com or the Lincoln Resource. |
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No its not a WAM. The separation must be bigger. |
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