I was asked recently to write a short essay on environmentalism to be published in a book on âKey Concepts in Critical Management Studiesâ to be published by Sage later in 2010. I hope itâs useful for those who want a little bit of history and critical understanding of environmentalist as a concept and a movement.
Hand sorting the 1982 Copper from the Zinc pennies. 1982 was the transition year for the US Mint to stop making pennies from copper and switch to zinc. There... Hand sorting the 1982 Copper from the Zinc pennies. 1982 was the transition year for the US Mint to stop making pennies from copper and switch to zinc. There are sorting machines that can be purchased to do this work, but if you dont have a machine, your ears can do the job!
In 1944, when the pennies were going to be copper again, some steel planchets were struck and there are a few steel 1944 pennies. There were even fewer of these than the 1943 copper pennies and they are very valuable. One sold at auction in 2008 for $373,750 dollars.