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<p>[QUOTE="Tanton, post: 2660184, member: 85554"]Exactly! See, that was my thought too and that's why I'm so intrigued by all of this. He passed away in his late 40s before I was born so I only have stories to know him by, so all of this is sort of like a puzzle trying to figure out how his mind worked. These 1982 cents were definitely the outlier compared to the rest. At first I had the same idea- that since they weren't as organized as the rest that they must not be anything special. Now I'm realizing that these may have been one of his unfinished endeavors, are actually really neat. </p><p><br /></p><p>One big thing I've noticed is that there's a lot of like variations of the different plates even within the small date/large date. Not to mention the numerous different styles of the copper plating over the zinc. I'm going to try and categorize all of the different groups of variations I find, do you think that'd be something people would be interested in? Or does something like that already exist?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Tanton, post: 2660184, member: 85554"]Exactly! See, that was my thought too and that's why I'm so intrigued by all of this. He passed away in his late 40s before I was born so I only have stories to know him by, so all of this is sort of like a puzzle trying to figure out how his mind worked. These 1982 cents were definitely the outlier compared to the rest. At first I had the same idea- that since they weren't as organized as the rest that they must not be anything special. Now I'm realizing that these may have been one of his unfinished endeavors, are actually really neat. One big thing I've noticed is that there's a lot of like variations of the different plates even within the small date/large date. Not to mention the numerous different styles of the copper plating over the zinc. I'm going to try and categorize all of the different groups of variations I find, do you think that'd be something people would be interested in? Or does something like that already exist?[/QUOTE]
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