the real skinny on 1982 pennies.

This may be a stupid question, so please forgive me. I was looking over my 82 d small date with a magnifying glass. There is clearly a letter a in Lincoln's robe as well as an m. Also there is an e above the liberty close to his ear that you can only see with magnifying glass. Also a few numbers through out coin. Almost looks like it was reprinted over a mistake. What is that calkex?

 

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Those prices would only apply to 64/65 and lower MS coins. Examples in higher grades are worth substantially more, especially slabbed:

http://www.pcgs.com/prices/priceguidedetail.aspx?ms=1&pr=1&sp=1&c=47&title=lincoln cent (modern)

The vast majority of 1982's are 65 and less, typically 62-64. Finding attractive gems is difficult - but not impossible with a lot of searching and luck.

 

Thank you, but can you tell. Me when it has extra impressions through out the coin you see with a magnifying glass is called

 

For me, one of the hardest 82's to find in gem state is the 1982P SDC.

 

Another one that's difficult is the 1982P LDZ. They made so many copper 1982P's, there was little need for the LDZ. These are well known for spotting and bubbles...a problem that plagued the mint until about 1985.

Popular theory is that the 1982 SDZ's have the lowest numbers but I believe the 1982P LDZ is even lower since Philly was so dedicated to pumping out HUGE numbers of the coppers.

 

I have the 1982 small date copper coins weighting over 3gms

 

I don't think this is easy to fine.

 

I recently posted photos of the varieties in Post your Lincolns!. That post also links to other posts that discuss all the diagnostics.

 

Luckily I got one of the zinc Philly large date pennies. Only ones I'm missing is the Philly copper small date and the Philly Zinc small date.

 

Several rolls down. Mostly copper. All large date.
Small date as common as hens teeth.

 

Very common plating bubbling and still a problem ever since. Not an error, just fairly normal on zinc cents plated in copper.

 

We would need to see GOOD images of the coin. Usually it is called "wishful thinking".

There is also a fancy name for it, the mind seeing thing is random data
Pareidolia another related idea along the same lines is Apophenia.

 

Thank you so much. Can you please take a look at these picks of my 1963 d penny. It looks like there are random letters and imprints tell me what you think. If you can stretch out like on a phone, you can see real good ones on bottom of robe

 

There are photos of a 1968 and a 1963-D.
Just common circulated cents to me.

 

Looked through a couple of previous searched (before I knew what I know) and found 2 1982. One D& 1 P.
BOTH copper and BOTH large date.

Curses!

 

I am new, and may not have right equipment, don't really know how to take a good pic, and for this I apologize, but these might show you better what I see under magnifying glass

 

I have a few 1982 pennies, trying to sort the varieties out and found some that weigh in at 3.1 and also some at 2.4..... Anyone know anything about this? Oh, Using a digital scale..

 

Zinc cents weigh 2.5 grams. Copper cents weigh 3.1 grams.
1982 was a transitional year with some cents in copper and some in zinc.
In 1983 all are supposed to be zinc, but some very valuable 1983 on copper (bronze planchets) have been discovered. Not including that super rarity,
the best 1982 is the small date zinc. The small date has a very detailed "2"
and the large date has a very sloppy looking 2. The large has a better strike on LIBERTY while the small has a weak strike on LIBERTY.
Large/Small photo

 

I beg to differ in that I find Liberty sharper on small date but not necessarily light struck.

 

Maybe it's not a weak strike maybe it is because of the die. Perhaps you have seen some very early stage dies. Because every site agrees that a weak LIBERTY on the small date 1982 Lincoln is a key to identification. (Besides the shape of the 2).