I'm going to buy one I cant even find my old one I have used it in over a year dont know were i put it ill be back on at 730 or 8 pics should be up by then or so i stay 30 mins from town
But now that OP has something to prove to the naysayers, he could post a picture of the coin on a digital scale and use any number of ways to manipulate the readout to show 3.1g. We certainly aren't there to confirm anything. So OP, if it's genuinely 3.1g then thats awesome. You have won at life. Get it graded and put it up for auction and collect your winnings. You have nothing to prove in this thread and you probably already know what anyone would tell you about it's potential worth anyway.
Yes a copper 1983-D. Also a 1989-D and a few others. But my feeling is these are isolated incidents. A copper blank is found years later stuck in a machine in a weird place during a clean, you don't take anything out of the mint, so it just gets tossed into a bin of zinc blanks. If an entire sheet/roll of copper planchets got mixed in by accident, there would be (40?) of these coins instead of 1. How many blanks can you punch out of a sheet? The later years are more interesting that the 1983 which was a transitional year. 1989? How did that go undiscovered for 7 years? (The copper blank at the mint.)
I have a handful. http://www.numismaticnews.net/article/latest-copper-1983-d-cent-mystery are we still waiting ??
You've had the coin 2 years, you must have incredible self restraint, I would have been howling from the hilltops
Also, why would you weigh a random 83 (when you only typically need to weigh 82s)? And if you knew enough to know what a 83 copper means, why would you blow it off for two years and choose to ask a coin forum rather than weighing it again and confirming what you have?
Yes that's not true about only weighing the 1982's. The guy who found the first off metal 1983, (transitional year) specifically was searching for an off metal and weighed all the 1983's. (Prob went through tons of them.) And found 1. I weigh all my 1983's.
Yes, but that only makes sense if you do that, find the rare copper cent, then jump for joy and run to the auction house. It specifically does NOT make sense if you do that, find the rare copper cent, then do nothing for two years except kind of maybe forget that you might've found a once in a lifetime coin but now your digital scale is broke so you don't really know anymore.
I guess this kind of stuff is what generates the sometimes perceived attitude of the masses here. Don't understand why people would try to maintain their claims when proof could be rather simple nor do I understand the need to 'pretend' I had something I indeed did not. Rather silly.
