1943 LWC Steel - Need Identification Of Error Bumps

Your right....i need to send to PCGS.

PCGS does not grade cleaned coins. They'll be sent back to you in a plastic bag with an "ungradable" tag, what's know as body bagged in the hobby.

All the steel penny pics are what I have. The Morgan dollar pic was what she sent for comparison.

And if you read how we clean them with just lemon juice...it would be impossible to see that kind of damage.

May I suggest that these are just coins that will not be understood or agreed on.

And thanks about PCGS not evaluating cleaned coins. I have another source.

Take care all thank you.

Interested in your coin cleaning process and how you make them look like they are replated. Can you post any pictures of a few coins going through your process? You don't have to show any "Trade Secrets" per se. Or even a before and after pic?

No, not really. You already said you soak in lemon juice and salt then polish them. How can pictures of what the coins start like and what they look like going through the process "reveal" anything? Just curious what kind of shape they are in to start then how they transform into a reprocessed like shine.
If you don't want to show us then what's your ebay handle - I'll buy a few. They sound pretty interesting.

Doesn't it seem odd to you that this is the first time you have found these on coins you are "processing? And you have found this 50 or so out of 1000. 5% of the coins in your order had these anomalies. Simply too many to be coincidental or an unknown mint error.
Were these from a new supplier or from someone you have bought from before?

I'm going to make a suggestion that will be much less costly than sending to any service. Sacrifice one of the coins by seeing if the raised area will come off by scraping with a knife or dental pick. Look to see what is under the surface. I too, believe that something about the process you use left these raised areas on the coins (if they aren't Chinese)

ANACS might grade them if they are a true mint error and send them back but they would have a "Details" grade from cleaning.

Maybe I missed it, but how much does one weigh?

I posted a pic of one on scale earlier at 2.7. They are the correct weight, and I did try to modify bumps. They are simply part of the pennies as solid metal.

I buy these allways from the same vendor. This will be the third batch. 1,000 pennies per order. We allways screen every coin we get.

As seen in other photos, they still have machine lines so I cant beleive they were replated by anyone in their lifetime. And if this extra debris were going to come off, I assure you it would have by the time they finished our treatment on them.

And yes, they have to be seen by live. I dont beleive anyone could decipher how these came to be by just looking at photos at this point.

There is one theory that was presented to me. That these were "faulty struck planchets that were reused to make the penny in order to save steel." Seems logical but again, nothing current Wexler or other catalogs have documented.

I may only have a few hundred posts on here because most of the time I do my own work and usually figure things out myself. I personally have been into coins and collecting for many years and this is not my first Rodeo. My focus, is not on error coins. Hence why I'm in this Community.

The focus or attention on these coins seems to prevail to thinking they were somehow "plated", or our actually gentle cleaning method could possibly extrude steel. There is no super heat or electric used. In fact cold water is a key when cleaning them which is not everyones favorite chore here.

But I still thank everyone that has contributed their knowlege and time to try and figure these out. There has to be a simple answer. My guess is their a fluke or error during production that didnt get scrapped by QC,s.