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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Michael K, post: 3861211, member: 78298&quot;]In 1982 they made copper cents and then later that same year zinc cents.</p><p>There are 2 1982-D small date copper cents (Denver only made the small date in zinc) and there are (a few?) 1983 cents on old copper planchets, and there are even a few later dates that are supposed to be zinc and they are copper.</p><p>How did that happen? When you work with high speed machines, sometimes small things can end up in weird places. Perhaps when there was&nbsp; a system clean, a few planchets were discovered. You can&#039;t take anything out of the mint, and the copper and zinc planchets look the same, and they just could have been tossed into a hopper of zinc planchets and found their way into circulation years later. I believe a 1989 was found and a couple other dates.</p><p>Yes these off metal coins are valuable, but it&#039;s really not worth the time to look for one. You are talking 1 or 2 out of literally billions of coins. Someone will find one, but it&#039;s not going to be you or me.&nbsp; Every day someone comes on here and swears they have one, and of course it never is. Yes, it could fall into your lap, but the math and the odds say no.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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