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Does anyone know about pennies?

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Dyna_Willie

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What year was the last year that pennies were made of copper?
 
Copper plated zink pennies were minted from 1982 on.

Lincon Wheat pennies were minted 1909 to 1958.

In 1943 Zinc coated steel was used in minting US pennies.

HH,
 
Wow,Thats quite a pile you have there,I rolled all mine from last year about
a week ago. If I had not rechecked them I would have missed a 1910 wheat
that I had thrown in the jar by mistake :)

Terri
 
This is what I have resorted to since the ground is like rock here in PA. I have decided to put them into categories; Wheaties, late 50's, 60's, 70's, 76's, then lumping 80,81,82. Not sure why, it just seems like the thing to do. I have a big fire going in the fireplace, my Bailey's and Coffee, and thousands of pennies to sort. WOO HOO!
 
I've been doing genealogy :nerd:,since I already did my pennies and just about everything else I can
think of to keep myself occupied. No MD'ing around here either,expecting an ice storm maybe,
at the least several inches of snow the next few days :veryangry:A big fire sounds nice,Baileys too.

Terri
 
Terri, I am in PA, what part of the country are you in? They have us under a "STORM WATCH" which basically means another few weeks of no MDing!:thumbdown: I have made it through 1000 pennies, and the pile is not even dented. I need to go get more wrappers. Pennies sure are dirty, at least mine are. No ground breaking revelation found so far. I'll keep you posted.
 
With you working on your genealogy,:nerd: have you discovered any revelations?
 
remember, the 82's were minted in both alloys so you need to verify which of the two an '82 is. Also, there were some small experimental runs with a couple alloys in the mid 70's. and apparently a few of those got out. These were something different than both the pre-82 and post 82 alloys. I haven't found if those are worth any premium or not but I've found one! :) When I check a bunch of pennies, I use an ID detector and use the tone ID rather than handle each penny in a manner to check the date. One time I got a penny that was consistantly bouncing between zinc and high tone so I looked at the numeric ID and it WAS in between the normall reading of the two regular alloys. I later read about this somewhere but can't recall just where that was. Remember, we're talking boredom management here, right? :lol:
 
Hi Willie,
Im in central IN. and we are under a winter storm watch too. The older I get the more I
hate winter. Hope you find some keepers in your pile :). Stay safe and warm.

Terri
 
dyna willie, ive been hoarding solid copper cents for the past couple of years. when the u.s. switched to zinc/copper plated cents in 1982, it sent up a warning sign of things to come. the u.s. mint claims that copper was too expensive to coin and was making no money on the copper cents. various alloys were tried through the years, with even an aluminum cent minted in 1974. there are several in private collections and very valuable. there are seven different types of cents minted in 1982...they are distinguished mostly by weight and mintmark. those super cheap, half rotten bubbled up monstrosities we call cents are what we dig up all the time. im seeing fewer and fewer pre 1982 cents in my change and has lately become a job to locate just one out of a handful. so every pre 1982 cent i see, i save in roll form. theyre slowly disapearing, and i mean to have a few on hand when they do. you can look for a huge collector resurgence when the new lincoln cent is introduced in 2009. and when that happens, look out! thanks, and hh,
 
Gray Ghost, You are absolutely right, these solid copper pennies are disappearing. I just wrapped 1450 pennies all dates within the sixties, 555 pennies from the 70's, 300 pennies that are all dated 1976, and misc. 80-81, a mixture of 82's, a slew of 1959, and 1959D, a couple of 20's, one copper 1944. I will work on the wheat's tomorrow, and plan to attack the silver on Saturday! The coins keep me occupied when the ground is frozen, then spring comes and we can start all over again!:detecting::clapping:
 
To find these pennies from your stash-Just drop them one at a time on the table and after about 5 of the good coins you will be able to hear the difference in tones. I believe it takes about 150 of the better ones to make a pound.. I bet the Coin Star machine at your local Supermarket enjoys them when the vendor picks up the change. Local coin show dealers are getting interested in buying bags of these . We cannot melt them now in the United States but they are crossing the border into Canada where it is legal to melt them.
 
I ended up wrapping a total of 2650 pennies today! And have partial bags started for all years. I will work on the wheat pennies tomorrow.
 
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