Jerboablue78

Found this ugly duckling today and when I looked closer it had a little surprise for me. Backwards 7 What do you think?

2 hours ago, Coinbuf said:

There is little need to worry about needing to differentiate between zinc or copper for the 1982D small date.  The reason is that there are only a tiny handful of real copper 1982D small dates in existence, these were never supposed to be made at all.  A commonly accepted reason for the few that do exist is that those copper planchets were left over stuck in a bin or somewhere throughout the flow of planchets.  So what you should do is automatically assume that any 1982D small date is a zinc coin unless it has been verified by a numismatic expert and/or top TPG.   We see the question "is this 1982D a copper small date or not" two to three times a week, not once have I seen one actually be a copper small date. 

Thank you for explaining that since I am new to collecting.

Thank you for the answer..

Thanks for showing me the difference..here is one that looks like a small date to me... 

Thanks for all the info...I am enjoying learning more and researching..pretty fun hobby during this pandemic to try and learn instead of sitting and worrying !!

Came across a handful of these in our penny jar. Some have different looking dates on them.

Thanks..I am new to this so I am enjoying learning about each thing I find or am given.

And some 2 dollars...

Thanks for that info...we have a lot of 57 ones and some 35's.

My boyfriend's great uncle had this and a ton of old star notes and silver certificates in his possession when he passed. His mom gave it all to us. I thought this was pretty cool penny due to it's age. 

Thank you for the input... I have been finding a lot of different ones lately and decided to start collecting them and learning more about them. Here are just two pictures of what I call my parking lot finds. 

New to coin collecting. Any information on this coin would be appreciated. I found it in a gas station parking lot in Virginia so it has a little dirt on it.