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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;8bitbrad, post: 128033, member: 2091&quot;]One way to tell the zinc plated cents from the copper cents is to look at the cent under a loupe and a good light.&nbsp; The zinc plated cents tend to be extremely &quot;bubbly&quot; on the surface.&nbsp; This is due to the poor quality of the plating process.&nbsp; Now, not every single 1982 zinc plated cent looks this way, but plenty of them do.&nbsp; Even after all these years of making these zinc plated planchets, I occasionally still see a recently minted cent that strongly exhibits these &quot;bubbles&quot;.&nbsp; I would guess from my experience looking at 1982 cents that the majority of 1982 zinc plated cents exhibit this feature to some extent.&nbsp; Some you can tell just by looking at them without magnification.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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