Question About 1982 Small Date Philadelphia Copper Penny

Well, to start lets just say that there were 10,712,525,000 (that's 10++ Billion) 1982 Philadelphia cents minted overall. with a smaller percentage were the small dates, if only 10% were small dates, that would still be around 100 Million, so not that rare.
However, let me go do a little research and see it there are any percentages published.

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Well, this is a very milky subject, I keep finding different values, but Try this on for size:
https://www.chroniclecollectibles.c...penny-value/
It does not completely answer your question, but a good start.

To be clear. 1982 has 7 varieties. Very big strike numbers. According with Mint report, was strike the small till June 1982 about half of the production ordered by the Reserve and the rest after with large date. In fact was just the hub change with a new Digit font. No one is scarce or rare.

Why those frequent questions about? Because a marron on YouTube made money with false information's.

this it is the story of. I have at lest 12 official sets of all varieties released by mint and a few roll of UNC for every variety. So this it is scarce? what oddguy wrote it is really misinformation about.

For small date I have no knoleadge of DDO. The large date yes and add value.

There are actually 7 varieties for 1982 Lincoln cents plus the single proof (1982 S) is a Large Date Copper Proof only 3.11g. You will notice from the image that its only the 1982-D small date that is only in zinc, and so if found on copper its a rare error with only two examples found. The others all can be found on BOTH zinc and copper planchets normally and only valuable in certain cases like a very high grade such as if you look at PCGS or NGC website price guide for the highest graded condition examples (a bit more below), or has some other reason like its another variety or error. Copper weight around 3.11g while Zinc weight around 2.5g.



It's theorized that the 1982-D Small Date copper penny was created when a brass planchet, or prepared coin blank, was left in the Mint's coin hopper by accident and was inadvertently fed into the coining presses. At least two (and perhaps many more) were unknown — until the first one was discovered by Paul Malone on November 23, 2016. He found it while sorting his 1982 pennies. It was the first-ever reported discovery of a 1982-D Small Date penny. What's amazing about this coin is that it took nearly 35 years for it to be found. And what's even more incredible still is that there are likely more out there just like it waiting to be discovered.




Just one example: 1982 Bronze Large Date DDO FS-101 (034.5) weight 3.11g. p82 strike. coneca ddo-002, coppercoins 1982-1do-002, wexler wddo-002. circulated value 20-30, uncirculated value 50-85. look at in god we trust and liberty. look for doubling on in god we trust and slightly om the bottom of libe of liberty. Some nice extra thickness with minor separation lines show on the date, LIBERTY and the motto. Notching also shows on the R of TRUST

Generally speaking, errors and varieties can improve the value so makes it a bit more worthwhile to learn about them and search for them ongoing. A book like strike it rich with pocket change may help you get started finding some like that which are out there where that info came from. Normally there can be huge volumes of coins struck with modern coins and so because of having so many out there, circulated coins are generally not typically worth more than their face value or at least nothing that would make someone want to regularly search them out even if a bit higher. However even without errors or varieties, you can check the worth of a coin on pcgs and ngc in graded condition and how many are in the census for those grades (as if there is only 1 or 2 found in that top grade out of millions or billions, its unlikely that you will find that condition), and then pay to submit the coin for grading, and then potentially can sell it. This requires a lot of time and probably some learning experience because modern coins tend to have only the top grade or two that are harder to find with value you may notice, while the rest are money even or money losing after paying grading fees vs older coins which may generally hold more value than the grading fees even when not in the very top condition in some cases.

With no proof and no clearance at this time I must say in my opinion w mint and p mint are distinguishable by 3d bowtie and 2 d bowtie. Another thing in my opinion 1982 copper small date cents were only minted in the month of january at both w/p mints however that means twice as many for only one month so take your over all p mintage divided it by 1/12 and then multiply that number by two or just separate your 3d bowtie obverses and 2 d bowtie obverses and realize each variety is 1/12 the over all recorded mintage for P. I appologize I can not confirm or deny where my information comes from however if it puzzles you try filing a freedom of information request on all 1982 cents in all varieties from all mints. Here is the image of both varieties Hoorah!

If you look closely at each obverse variety the 2d bowtie has only one side of the bowtie showing where as the other 3d bowtie both sides of the bowtie show. I can not confirm or deny which indicates w or which indicates P however I have one clue for you.

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