![]() ![]() Mint famously struck cents in two compositions: the traditional 95 percent copper and 5 percent zinc, and the new and more economical copper-plated zinc. ![]() Gibbs reported in June 2017, “In 1982, the U.S. In 1982, cent production was transitioning away from planchets fabricated from 95 percent copper and 5 percent zinc to, instead, the current composition of copper-plated zinc.Īs Coin World’s managing editor William T. The errors were produced from an obverse die from the new hub introduced in 1982.īoth cent errors weigh the same - 3.08 grams - within tolerances for the 3.11-gram weight of the copper alloy cents. NGC classifies the 1982-D Lincoln, Small Date bronze cents as Mint errors, and not an eighth variant of circulation strikes from the 1982 calendar year of production at the Denver and Philadelphia Mints, since they were struck in error on leftover planchets. 23, 2016, by an anonymous Minnesota collector, after he decided to comb through a hoard of bronze cents he had accumulated from circulation.īoth of the 1982-D Lincoln, Small, Date bronze cents now known were struck on planchets composed of 95 percent copper, with zinc as the 5 percent balance of the alloy. 8, 2017, in conjunction with the American Numismatic Association World’s Fair of Money, where it realized $18,800, which includes the then 17.5 percent buyer’s fee. The discovery piece was offered by Stack’s Bowers Galleries Aug. ![]() A discovery specimen was attributed in February 2017, also by NGC, which also graded that piece AU-58 brown. ![]()
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