1982-D small date copper cent

[Cu Penny Hoarder]

I just started searching though my 4000lbs hoard of copper pennies for one of these. Could take me a year to do this.

One sold at auction for $18,800.

How rare are these? What do you think my chances are in finding one? You think it's worth the effort, neck and eye strain?

[outofsort]

Those are very rare, and thus valuable. Maybe only two known I think??? I do check all the 82-D SD coins that come my way. I'm not sure I would search my copper stack, however, unless I had separated all the 82's like some do. Good luck.

[hobo finds]

Some info here... https://www.numismaticnews.net/article/ ... pper-found

[Recyclersteve]

This is one of those somewhat awkward topics. If I was looking through a bunch of coins for an undiscovered rarity, in a way I'd rather find just one than I would find say 50-100. Think about it this way- if a single person found that many of an as yet undiscovered rarity, people would think:

1) Once a lot of people start looking for them they will be coming out of the woodwork. So they can't be very valuable.
2) He must be a very talented counterfeiter.

Neither of those would bode well for me.

But if I found a single one, it could be worth several thousand dollars. Still, taking a lot of time for a very low probability event is not worth it to many people. Odds are very, very high that it would not be time well spent.

[fasteddy]

are those SD bronze '82's still rare to find?

For $18,800 I can spend a few hours looking through my shinee '82's....at least I don't have to search the zinc '82's.

Here in Houston we get mostly D minted cents...odds are probably bad to worse but you never know, I found a 1922 no D years ago.

[Cu Penny Hoarder]

Update:

So far I've gone through about 500 pounds in my spare time... zilch.

As I age I've noticed the neck and eye strain is even worse. Sucks.

[Morsecode]

Barrytrot posted a pretty extensive list of Lincolns to look for while sorting...it's pinned near the top of this board.

Back when I was sorting I had keyed in on a half dozen or so that I figured I had the best chance to find while not slowing the sorting to a crawl. Found both '55 & '72 doubled-dies (same month!), which barry generously offered to slab for me. Sold them both for a nice sum shortly thereafter.

But looking at that list it does make it hard to be a Sorter and a coin Collector at the same time. Those of you with copper stashes can focus on the varieties without all that zinc getting in the way.

[thecrazyone]

I know that I have a 1982 D in an old book, but doubt it's the rare one. Now you guys have me curious though

[Recyclersteve]

Update:

So far I've gone through about 500 pounds in my spare time... zilch.

As I age I've noticed the neck and eye strain is even worse. Sucks.

I assume you mean 500# of pennies, rather than 500# of 1982's, which would be A LOT!