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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 4068028, member: 77814&quot;]bullet points</p><p><br /></p><ul> <li>Coining of the zinc cents actually commenced on January 7, 1982 at the West Point Mint.</li> <li>(west point) this facility produced nearly a billion cents from 1974 to 1985.</li> <li>As these bear no mintmarks, they are indistinguishable from those made at Philadelphia.)</li> <li>Soon thereafter, Philadelphia undertook this coinage, too.</li> <li>Denver continued to produce solely (large date) brass cents until October 21, 1982. That was conversion day.</li> <li>(Denver) After coining brass cents in the morning, an hour&#039;s suspension was affected during which time all the remaining brass cents and planchets were cleared away, and the striking of zinc cents began.</li> <li>(Denver) The first delivery of these from the Coining Division was made on the 27th.</li> <li>The San Francisco Mint struck nearly four million proof cents for collectors, but these were all of the traditional composition. It was found that the underlying zinc broke through its thin copper plating under the repeated impressions given to proof coins.</li> <li>(zinc plating breaking on Proofs) This problem was solved in 1983 and subsequent years by furnishing each proof planchet with a second copper plating.</li> <li>Oddly enough, San Francisco did mint 1,587,245 zinc cents for general circulation in 1982. Like those made at West Point, however, these bear no mintmarks.</li> </ul><p><br /></p><ul> <li>The coin hobby enjoyed a real windfall when the U.S. Mint decided to make <u>a major revision to the cent&#039;s obverse master hub midway through 1982. </u></li> <li><u>The new hub is most easily recognized by its much smaller date, and these Small Date cents were first struck September 3</u>.</li> <li>Ultimately, a total of seven different combinations of date size, mint and composition were created for the circulating cent coinage in 1982,</li> <li>only a 1982-D Small Date Brass cent being omitted. When one adds the 1982-S Large Date Brass proof cent to this mix, the result is a most memorable year for collectors.</li> </ul><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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