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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Neal, post: 26130668, member: 43872&quot;]Also no expert here, but the 1982 looks to me like just trashy zinc.&nbsp; As Randy said, that was the first year of the zinc cents, and they really hadn&#039;t figured out how to do it right, so many if not most have some sort of zinc corrosion problem, causing bubbles, lumps, spots, and other deterioration.&nbsp; It just lowers any value it might have had, but still worth 1 cent.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1941 looks like a cool lamination error.&nbsp; These do carry a premium for some collectors, but they are not terribly rare, so the value is not huge.</p><p><br /></p><p>And you are quite correct--never clean a coin if it might have collector value.&nbsp; There are some exceptions to this rule, but not many.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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