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% Of 1982 Zinc LMCs

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Does anyone know the official %age of 1982 LMCs that are copper plated zinc ? I've found about 10% of the 1982s I see are zinc.
Anyone else have different or about the same %age?
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Really? When I CRH I can say that 3/4 of my 1982s are zinc.
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By mintage or by survival? Either way, there are a lot more of the brass cents than the plated cents. There were more brass cents initially minted, and mostly because of unnatural attrition of the early zinc cents, there are now far more brass cents in circulation.
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When I was separating coppers (not any more) I was seeing about 15% zinc in the 82s. I am about 100 south of Philly so the vast majority were P.

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i am lucky if its 10% here and to find one AU even less
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I would venture to guess those estimates are a more or less nationwide thing. I haven't completely added up the counts from last year, but figure the surviving population of minted 1982 zinc cents is less than 10%. The surviving population of minted 1982 brass cents is probably around 50%.
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I think I can learn something here. As I have understood, there were 1982 pennies minted in the old copper alloy and then a switch to zinc with a fine copper coating. Am I mistaken? I have never really had a clear explanation given to me about the different varieties in 1982. The only ones I am aware of are Zinc/copper and small/large date varieties of each.

I would love to learn more about this brass. Knowledge is power, and at the least, Knowledge offsets ignorance.
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