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Re: zinc cent

Posted by Coulport on July 18, 2010 at 17:12:09:

In Reply to: zinc cent posted by Dylan Scores on July 18, 2010 at 15:29:38:

: I found this in a bank penny roll. any idea what it might be worth?

They are both worth the same, 1¢.

When they first started making copper plated zinc cents in 1982, some were struck on blanks that didn't have the copper coating. They brought quite a premium. Then some enterprising folks found a way to strip the copper off and flooded the market with the altered coins and killed the 'error' market on them.

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: : I found this in a bank penny roll. any idea what it might be worth?

: They are both worth the same, 1¢.

: When they first started making copper plated zinc cents in 1982, some were struck on blanks that didn't have the copper coating. They brought quite a premium. Then some enterprising folks found a way to strip the copper off and flooded the market with the altered coins and killed the 'error' market on them.



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