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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Virginian, post: 2888916, member: 27579&quot;]A whole lotta wrong by PCGS there. </p><p><br /></p><p>(1) There is no bronze 1982 penny which has been found anywhere AFAIK. </p><p><br /></p><p>(a) There is a brass penny with 95% copper and 5% zinc.&nbsp; Normal folks usually call these copper.</p><p><br /></p><p>(b) There is also a copper-plated brass penny where the brass is 97.5% zinc and only 2.5% copper (note that this combination is STILL brass - just with different ratios).&nbsp; Normal folks usually call these zinc.</p><p><br /></p><p>But no bronze.&nbsp; Any bronze cents which may have been made after 1962 would have been accidents and probably worth a pretty penny. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>(2) The mint most assuredly did not make the exact same number of small date copper cents in Philadelphia as it made small date zinc cents in Philadelphia as those two links indicate under &quot;Mintage.&quot; I think that most folks would say that the small date zinc cents are harder to find and therefore it stands to reason that fewer were made (although why, I have no idea).</p><p><br /></p><p>Given all that, I have no faith in any of the other information in those two links from PCGS.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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