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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;VistaCruiser69, post: 20428312, member: 107016&quot;]I am saddened when I read this.&nbsp; Because I remember when I was a teen in 82&#039; - 83&#039;, we discovered this new cool trick with brand new pennies.&nbsp; We&#039;d pick out the 82&#039;s, drop them on the ground and then with our tennis shoe, we&#039;d drag the penny across the cement.&nbsp; The &quot;trick&quot; so to speak, was making the penny turn silver.&nbsp; Basically we scrapped off the thin copper coating to expose the zinc core.&nbsp; Yeah, you know teens, very easily amused with the simplest of things.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>But what saddens me about this is, I remember being disappointed when occasionally we&#039;d do this to a 82&#039; penny and it didn&#039;t turn silver because it was a solid copper 82&#039;, and now we come to realize that perhaps one of those could have been the infamous 1982 D small date copper penny.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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