Sorting 1982 Linc Variety

has become something I wanted to do and now may not care about.
Is there an easy way to distinguish between the 82 Lincoln varieties?
When I say easy, my experience would be with the 1858 Flying Eagle
cent; large letters have close AM, small letters have wide AM. Case
closed.
I have about 200 1982's to determine the varieties of - I do have a
gram scale and have started weighing some. Any ideas...moneybucks and
other references haven't helped much and the pic in the red
book...well, my glasses aren't that good.
Thanks
If you email me use - ringleader at bellsouth dot net
Craig

"Jump Master" wrote in message
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has become something I wanted to do and now may not care about.
Is there an easy way to distinguish between the 82 Lincoln varieties?
When I say easy, my experience would be with the 1858 Flying Eagle
cent; large letters have close AM, small letters have wide AM. Case
closed.
I have about 200 1982's to determine the varieties of - I do have a
gram scale and have started weighing some. Any ideas...moneybucks and
other references haven't helped much and the pic in the red
book...well, my glasses aren't that good.
Thanks
If you email me use - ringleader at bellsouth dot net

I just looked at my 1982 Lincolns and note that on the large dates, the 2
nestles against the rim, but on the small date there is considerable
daylight between 2 and rim. The Redbook pix corroborate that view, but it
may not be true of all the billions of cents made that year. As far as
separating the bronze from the zinc, you will indeed have to weigh them one
way or another.

James

On May 28, 3:33 pm, Jump Master wrote:
Is there an easy way to distinguish between the 82 Lincoln varieties?
I do have a gram scale

I recommend weighing them, although a gram scale probably isn't good
enough, you would want 0.1 g or so accuracy.
IIRC, the copper ones weigh about 3.1 g, and the zinc ones about 2.5
g.

"Jump Master" wrote in message
oups.com...
has become something I wanted to do and now may not care about.
Is there an easy way to distinguish between the 82 Lincoln varieties?
When I say easy, my experience would be with the 1858 Flying Eagle
cent; large letters have close AM, small letters have wide AM. Case
closed.
I have about 200 1982's to determine the varieties of - I do have a
gram scale and have started weighing some. Any ideas...moneybucks and
other references haven't helped much and the pic in the red
book...well, my glasses aren't that good.
Thanks
If you email me use - ringleader at bellsouth dot net
Craig


I bought a complete set in unc for a few bucks. Great way to learn what
they look like.
Weight is the key on some.

Dale

My website will show the difference between the large and small dates

http://coins.richlh.com/Large_and_Small_Dates.htm

But to determine whether it is copper or zinc based would require a scale.
You can improvise a blance scale using a pencil and a popsicle stick. Just
lay the popsicle stick on the pencil, put a known cent on one side and the
cent you want to determine on the other. If they balance with the popsicle
stick in the center, they're both the same kind, if not they're different.


"Jump Master" wrote in message
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has become something I wanted to do and now may not care about.
Is there an easy way to distinguish between the 82 Lincoln varieties?
When I say easy, my experience would be with the 1858 Flying Eagle
cent; large letters have close AM, small letters have wide AM. Case
closed.
I have about 200 1982's to determine the varieties of - I do have a
gram scale and have started weighing some. Any ideas...moneybucks and
other references haven't helped much and the pic in the red
book...well, my glasses aren't that good.
Thanks
If you email me use - ringleader at bellsouth dot net
Craig

Great feedback, thanks.
I decided to set aside an hour, get out the scale and get to it.
After about 15 or 20 cents, you could spot the difference in the large/
small letters fairly easily. A few times I had to refer back to my
"reference" cent to be sure. But James was on it, the seperation
became obvious, especially after stacking and lining up the dates for
a close comparison.
I weighed out 200 82's and got 20 zinc at 2.5, 180 copper at 3.1. Of
the 20 zinc, 10 LL and 10 SL.
Of the copper, only 6 SL, rest were LL. I haven't seperated out the
D's, that's next.
After saving these for a few years figuring I would go thru just this
sort of drill, I really enjoyed it. I think I'm going to make as many
sets of the variety as I can and just keep them for ed purposes. I
know I got an education.

"Jump Master" wrote in message
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has become something I wanted to do and now may not care about.
Is there an easy way to distinguish between the 82 Lincoln varieties?
When I say easy, my experience would be with the 1858 Flying Eagle
cent; large letters have close AM, small letters have wide AM. Case
closed.
I have about 200 1982's to determine the varieties of - I do have a
gram scale and have started weighing some. Any ideas...moneybucks and
other references haven't helped much and the pic in the red
book...well, my glasses aren't that good.
Thanks
If you email me use - ringleader at bellsouth dot net
Craig


As to large & small dates, that is pretty easy to spot with a little
experience, as you state here in a later post. As to copper vs CPZ, the
best way to tell is to weigh the coin, but I am too lazy for that. I flip
it in the air (using my thumb nail to whack the coin and send it whirling
into the air). Copper coins have a melifluous ring while CPZ cents have a
blunt thud.

As an aside, it is fairly easy to find all of the varieties except for the
1982D zinc large date. When I was living in P-land I found less than one in
every 5,000 cents I searched. Now that I am living in D-land it may prove
to be a bit easier to find them. It is certainly a lot easier to find S
mint cents from the 60's and 70's here. That said, I have searched $75 in
cents and found exactly 0 1982D zinc large dates so far.



IF

On May 28, 6:49 pm, "Iagos Fool" wrote:
"Jump Master" wrote in message

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has become something I wanted to do and now may not care about.
Is there an easy way to distinguish between the 82 Lincoln varieties?
When I say easy, my experience would be with the 1858 Flying Eagle
cent; large letters have close AM, small letters have wide AM. Case
closed.
I have about 200 1982's to determine the varieties of - I do have a
gram scale and have started weighing some. Any ideas...moneybucks and
other references haven't helped much and the pic in the red
book...well, my glasses aren't that good.
Thanks
If you email me use - ringleader at bellsouth dot net
Craig

As to large & small dates, that is pretty easy to spot with a little
experience, as you state here in a later post. As to copper vs CPZ, the
best way to tell is to weigh the coin, but I am too lazy for that. I flip
it in the air (using my thumb nail to whack the coin and send it whirling
into the air). Copper coins have a melifluous ring while CPZ cents have a
blunt thud.

As an aside, it is fairly easy to find all of the varieties except for the
1982D zinc large date. When I was living in P-land I found less than one in
every 5,000 cents I searched. Now that I am living in D-land it may prove
to be a bit easier to find them. It is certainly a lot easier to find S
mint cents from the 60's and 70's here. That said, I have searched $75 in
cents and found exactly 0 1982D zinc large dates so far.

IF


And you are exactly correct! I did not have a one 82D zinc large date
and did not see that coming. I figured it would be in the low numbers,
but still I would get one. This educations keeps on and on.
As far as weighing, ask my wife about my singing abilities and you'll
understand why I weigh and not listen for sounds..
BTW, you got a 82D zinc large date or 2 for sale?
Craig

"Dr. Richard L. Hall" wrote in message
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My website will show the difference between the large and small dates

http://coins.richlh.com/Large_and_Small_Dates.htm

Great page, Dr.! It's what I thought I had bookmarked one other time, but
didn't. It's there now. Thanks for the repost.

James

Mr. Jaggers wrote:
"Dr. Richard L. Hall" wrote in message
. ..

My website will show the difference between the large and small dates

http://coins.richlh.com/Large_and_Small_Dates.htm


Great page, Dr.! It's what I thought I had bookmarked one other time, but
didn't. It's there now. Thanks for the repost.

James



The URL changed, this is the new one, so I just found out.
John D.