Hello all. Meow has been doing this Cat's daily CRH and found this small date 1982d penny that looked really copper to Meow. Its a bit light for copper, but its a bit heavy for zinc. So is this close enough for treasure?
Sorry, but it's highly unlikely that this is a copper. An easy way to tell is to run it through a Ryedale sorting machine and see if it's copper or zinc. Of course, you'd have to spend a couple hundred bucks on said machine. The thing is, though, that a 0.2 difference on 2.5g represents an 8% variance, which is much more reasonable to expect than a .4 difference on 3.11g, which represents a 13% variance. I would also be curious when the last time you calibrated your scale? .1g is not that hard to shift. I'm not saying it's definitively not the big one, but it's most likely not. Edit: it looks like a small plate blister running NE/SW between the 8 and the 2. The obverse has me thinking it's a Zlincoln.
I am sure everyone will say it's a bad idea but I would hold it flat 6 inches obove a hard surface and drop it and hope for the ring.
Yea, Meow is not thinking Meow hit the jackpot with this, but it is one of the heaviest zinc era pennies Meow has ever found. Even Cats dream of getting the big one CRH. Guess Meow will have to keep trying.
It could warrant a visit to a jewelry store that has an XRF scanner that'll tell you the contents. I think some sharper photos of the obverse could help as well.
It's just a copper plated zinc cent. No drop test, no sorter and no scanning needed. The weight varience is well within tolerance!
I don't really think this is anything special, just a good album filler. If you really want for you need to search through not only pennies but also nickels, dimes, quarters, and so on..... For dimes and through dollars look for a silver rim(picture 1) in each roll. This points out silver and is an excellent way to make profit. In penny rolls, you should probably look for pre-1958 cents. Anything before 1964 from dimes to dollars is 90% Silver. Half dollars from 1965-1969 are 40% silver, the silver rims of these coins will be harder to see. From 1942-1945 the us also produced silver war nickels, in war efforts.... These coins will have 35% silver in them and will have a large mintmark on the reverse ( Picture 2) .
@Noah Finney just wanted to point out that it's a rarity that one can find a silver nickel simply by looking at the side of a roll of nickels. Most are heavily circulated and are not so easy to spot. Don't rely on this method:
Well in about 16 months of CRH Meow has found 2 war Nickels, 7 pre65 dimes, 9 pre65 quarters. Meow does at least 20-40 rolls a week CRH, so Meow has figured those cool coins are fairly hard to find. Meow has also found one cud penny, two hornet nest pennies, and 3 RPM pennies. The best find was a 1960 d/d in AU/MS RB. Wonder how much that is worth? Meow loves to keep die chip and grease on die quarters too, and has more than a hundred examples. As well as the many doubled die ATB quarters. Meow totally just loves CRH, and regrets not starting decades ago. Tis such a fun hobby!
Well, Meow does not usually look at coin edges. As Meow carefully inspects every single coin in the roll hoping to find something interesting. Have you been CRH long? Meow has been doing it for about 16 months now.
