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What are the components of the 1980's US pennies copper silver or zinc?
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Beginning in mid-1982 the cent coins were changed to zinc with a thin copper coating. A silver cent would have cost over a dollar to manufacture at that time and probably nearly $2 by now!
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Why do your 1944 pennies not have a mint mark?
Coins made at the Philadelphia mint did not have mint marks until the 1980s. Your coin was made at the Philadelphia mint.
How much would a walking liberty Silver dollar cost?
If you mean a silver eagle (made from the 1980s to present) you can expect to pay $1-3 above silver spot for them. At the time of writing, you can expect to pay around $31-34 or so for one. Expect to pay about double that for a proof. Keep in mind that changes in silver prices will change the price of the coin.
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Bobby Brown
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58.78%
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They became wealthier
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One cent worth of silver would be such a small coin they would all be lost. You would need a pair of tweezers to pick one up. At the current price of silver, 1 cent worth would be about 1/100 the size of a normal penny.Also cents are not made of copper anymore. In the early 1980s there was a surge in the price of copper and many people began getting large numbers of pennies and melting them for their scrap copper value (then about 2 to 3 cents). So they were changed to zinc with a thin copper coating in 1982.
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Pennies are bronze colored because for many decades they were in fact made of copper or bronze. Those metals were chosen because they were cheap enough that they could be used in enormous amounts to make low-value coins, along with being hard enough to stand up to a lot of wear.When the price of copper went up in the 1980s the Mint had to choose a cheaper metal to avoid having pennies that were worth more than 1¢ each. Zinc was selected, partly because it's not expensive and partly because the zinc lobby has a lot of influence. Zinc is silvery in color, so to prevent confusion with dimes and to maintain the 200-year tradition of "copper" pennies, the zinc coins are plated with copper so that they look almost like their older bronze cousins.
Why do your 1944 pennies not have a mint mark?
Coins made at the Philadelphia mint did not have mint marks until the 1980s. Your coin was made at the Philadelphia mint.
What is the probability of choosing a penny from the 1980s from the bag of pennies without looking is mc003-1.jpg. Which term best describes this probability?
It is incalculable.
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How was silver supply in the 1990's?
The early 1990s saw dramatic reductions in secondary silver supply. Compared with the early 1980s, silver supply from scrap during the 1990s fell to approximately half its former level
How was silver supply supply in the 1990's?
The early 1990s saw dramatic reductions in secondary silver supply. Compared with the early 1980s, silver supply from scrap during the 1990s fell to approximately half its former level
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The mint gradually transitioned to the current copper-plated zinc composition in mid 1982. Old bronze stock was used up first, plus there were slight modifications to the design that didn't completely coincide with the composition change. As a result there are actually 7 different varieties of cent from that year! If you have a 1982 cent, about the only way to tell what it's made of is to weigh it on a sensitive scale. A bronze cent will weigh about 3.11 gm while a zinc one will weigh 2.5 gm
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Industry growth lagged during the 1980s, due in part to foreign imports. Also, more popular solid-state components reduced demand for traditional electromechanical equipment produced by this industry.
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No, it has no mintmark. Coins from the Philadelphia mint, with the exception of the War Nickels from 1942-1945 and the Susan B Anthony dollars didn't bear the "P" mintmark until the 1980s. Pennies to this day have no mintmark for the Philadelphia mint.
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1980s Yugo for sure.1980s Yugo for sure.
What is the value of a 1943 silver and gold American eagle?
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