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 Posted - 11/27/2007 : 18:36:53
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After I sort out my pre 1982s form my post 1983s, I'm still left with the 1982 pile.
Most 1982s are copper, the minority are zinc, but as sorting proceeds apace, that is changing, or is it?
I am absolutely not advocating for anything illegal.
I am just asking ...
Is there a legal way that I could mark my rejected 1982 Zinclones so that if you see them you won't have to look twice?
I've considered:
1. marking them with a Sharpie Pen,
2. acid etching them,
3. scratching or filing a small divit or groove into the edge,
4. throwing them in the landfill,
etc.
The sorting will continue melt ban or not.
If I mark one or remove it from circulation, I'm doing you and all other sorters a favor, aren't I?
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The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
John Maynard Keynes,
English economist (1883 - 1946)
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Frugi
Administrator
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Posted - 11/27/2007 : 19:07:07
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The 1982 cents have 7 varities is it? I save ALL my 1982's. Not many retired US coins have 7 or more varieties in one year. Why mark them at all? They are what they are. I hoard for numismatic purpose. I will never again take cents to the melters. These 1982's have great potential to be worth $$ in my opinion.
But....................
If you really want to distinguish them from others you could store them in a bucket outside exposed to the elements, they will surely start to rot in a couple of months. |
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 11/28/2007 : 06:46:37
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Lay them all flat, then spray paint them some fluorescent color on one side. Do this to all your zincs....Easier to I.D. all your zincs that way. Time consuming though. I have actually thought of doing something to that effect but I can't come up with a time effective method of marking the zincs. I just want to know if I am getting any of my returns back.
Is painting coins considered defacing them? I'm sure we all get those "wasted" coins all the time that are WAY worse off than if it was just painted. Those machines that squish the pennies into some souvenir piece are legal, and they completely destroy the penny as a monetary unit.
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Live free or die.
Plain and simple.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your council or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
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Frugi
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 11/28/2007 : 09:54:08
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| You can deface them all you want to. You just can't melt them for the metak OR deface them with the intent to commit fraud. EXAMPLE- Shaving the edges off and spending the lighter coin. |
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El Dee
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
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Posted - 11/28/2007 : 14:03:58
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Get an Automatic Centerpunch from a tool supplier.
Set it up to make a nice, deep, punchmark.
Arrange your coins face up and punch each one right above the date. |
Trust the government? Ask an Indian. |
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Posted - 11/28/2007 : 15:13:30
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Thanks for your responses.
There are two opinions here, as I see it.
1. 1982s will have numistmatic value above the 1983s and 1984s.
Duly Noted!!!!
2. Mark 'em, danno!
I'm in the mark'em camp, unless I find one that is in in really good condition.
If I find a nearly brilliant, or almost uncirculated 1982 penny, I'm keeping it.
All the rest of them, tho?
I like the idea of leaving them out in the sun, perhaps in the presence of a mild oxidizing agent.
As a matter of fact, wouldn't spreading them out in the sunshine in a mild acidic solution, facilitate sorting? |
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The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
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Epaphras
Penny Collector Member
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Posted - 11/28/2007 : 19:18:58
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I personally collect the zinc 82's. My intentions are to create a box of 82 zincs (already 82 coppers).
I don't think I could mark cents, but I do mark the zinc rolls I return with a red sharpie (most of the time, on rare ocassions with another color). So if you see a roll with red sharpie markings, beware. |
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centsless
Penny Pincher Member
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Posted - 11/28/2007 : 19:29:23
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| those of you who collect zinc 82's should know that an error has been discovered in the small date philadelphia variety. it was in the numismatic news about a month ago. there is doubling on the back at 12 oclock. the E in STATES shows it on the bottom bar and under that the E PLURIBUS UNUM is doubled also. i havent checked ebay lately to see if a market has developed yet. But you guys who have a vat full of them should get a magnifier some cold night this winter and see if you have one (or more) i have been checking ones i come across. havent stumbled on one yet. |
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