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New Member
United States
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 I'd be one upset man for a few days if I couldn't get however many of these coins graded. I do understand some of how this coin hunting can be exciting. It'll be hard to spend change now before checking the dates or weighing a penny if I think about it. I still got my question about damage from abrasion if anybody has advice, or if sending in coins to be professionally examined before sending them to be graded sounds reasonable.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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 Despite the "90's" look you will find a lot of good opinions on this forum. You'll definitely hear that its only worth sending a coin for grading if the potential value of the coin is substantially more than the cost of the TPG service, ie: $200 minimum. |
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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to the CCF Unless the 1982D Small Date is copper, there is nothing there worth much more than a cent or two each. It would cost you around $50.00 per coin to have graded so it is your decision. Edited by JimmyD
10/17/2022 2:28 pm
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New Member
 United States
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Hey appreciate the input fellas. Did not have a scale to weigh them all at the time but tried the drop test on one or two, maybe a few and got heard some sharp sounds. Not saying all of them but heard that sound from at least one or two. Besides that some have quite a yellowish tinge. Looking at the pictures now I'm glad I wasn't too thorough with that eraser. Now some advice for those they gave it, if you don't know, look it up.
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 United States
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to the Community! Your post was moved to the appropriate forum for the proper attention.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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to the CCF You need to stick around here for a while, to learn what to do with coins. First, why would you send in worthless coins to a grader? Second, if they did have any value to them, you just destroyed them with an eraser. Never clean or do anything to coins until you know what you are doing. |
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United States
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to the CCF Take a look at my other hobby ... http://www.jk-dk.art |
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United States
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The only coin in that lot of 6 is the 1982-D Small date, (The one second from the top on the left.) It is a very high probability of that coin being a Zinc core cent that will weigh in at 2.5g. Now if it were to weigh 3.11g, you would have hit the jackpot - but unfortunately the copper ones are so extremely rare and no longer are found in circulation. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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These are not valuable, simple as that.
You realize when you know how to think, it empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
-Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Valued Member
United States
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I keep all of my copper cents (1981 and before, and weigh your '82s) because they are worth a slight premium over face value due to the copper (about 2.2 cents as of the last I checked). But they're not going to net you a massive profit unless the price of copper decides to shoot WAY up.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Agree with all above. On the matter of hoarding copper cents, I held on to all copper cents found over a few decades. After gathering close to 200 lbs worth, I turned them into the bank. I only kept a few dozen that were high MS state or were clearly errors and varieties.
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New Member
United States
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  Thank y'all and I will report back with pictures once I weigh them but when I did the drop test on a hard surface, I heard two different sounds. The dull thud and a higher pitch sound almost like a ringing sound. Any ways does anybody know why these two pennies look this way on the back? I thought the color was interesting but it looks very gritty, the front of both of those pennies are not that same gritty yellowish color. |
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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It looks like some sort of environmental damage
that has attacked the coin.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Welcome to the community.
looks like spenders to me...
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Posted 10/17/2022 2:12 pm
