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valleyboy
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More plunder from our field trip earlier today. As the label says, these are Lincoln cents from 1982. 1982 is a noteworthy year because they changed the mold, which the government does every once in awhile.
The interesting thing about these is the date marker. Click on the photos to see a larger image, and compare the 1982 across the pennies. Those marked "SM" below the coin have small date labels--look at the small size of the "82" compared to the "19" next to it. The pennies marked "LG," on the other hand, have large date labels--the "82" seems relatively larger compared to the "19," and all four numbers are just a tad bigger.
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I know this is an old posting but you're way off in your description. First of all they dont use "molds", they are called dies. 1982 is the year they changed the composition of the cent from .950% copper, .050 zinc which it had been since 1962. The new compostion is copper plated zinc (99.2% zinc / 0.8% copper core plated with pure copper). Both compositions were issued in 1982. 7 different types of which your set denotes. The large and small dates denote the change to the date size. There is no such thing as having a small '19' and a large '82' on the same coin. The entire date is either the small version or the large version.