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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 212794, member: 669&quot;]<img src="http://www.cosgan.de/images/more/schilder/142.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> to CoinTalk d_lairson.</p><p>I don&#039;t collect them and although I&#039;ve heard that there are easy ways to tell the large and small dates apart, I don&#039;t know what they are.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the other hand, separating the early coppers from the later zincs is super easy.&nbsp; The difference between 3.11g (copper) and 2.5g (copper plated zinc) is significant. <ul> <li>If you have a digital scale with sufficient tolerance, just weigh each one.</li> <li>If you have a balance scale, weigh one on each side until you get an imbalance, then leave one on the scale, and put the others on the other side one at a time.</li> <li>If your bathroom scale is the only one in the house, use a popsicle stick (or any small flat piece of wood or plastic) and a pencil to create a balance scale.&nbsp; Balance the stick on the pencil, put a coin on each end, and put the heavy ones in the copper pile and the lighter ones in the zinc pile.</li> </ul><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />Why not?&nbsp; There are literally millions of each type and either through prior sorting or random chance, that small a number could easily be the same type. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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