If You Found A 1943 Copper Cent?

Neither. Get an arc welders torch and melt the thing so people would stop talking about them all the time.
Being an individual that keeps almost everything, I'd keep the thing. Put it in the slot for the regular 1943 cent in my album. Only if I needed money drastically would I consider selling anything.

For the $25-50,000(assuming mid to low circulated state) I could get from selling it, I think I would rather pimp out my type set instead of keeping one coin

Something like that would be best sold in a feature auction at a major show

I would most likely sell it, but I would probably hold on to it for a year or two.

My thoughts exactly Amazon99. That's exactly what I would do.

Not really. You would just get a hole in the coin. The real method would be to use a arc welder, melt it into a Copper blob, send it in for metal consistancy of coins of that period.
Or start a collection of wierd coins and call it an error collection.


There are numerous error coins of all types but only some gain fame and notariety. When I was a kid there used to be a story going around that Ford would give you a new car if you found one of those 1943 Copper Cents and gave it to him. Probably only a rumor but it started the notariety of that coin. In the 50's no one really thought to much of any coin that was doubled but the 55 Double Die get so much publicity that it became an over night hot item. Although almost every year of Lincoln Cents there are some Double Dies of some degree or other, that 55 became the double die of fame.
Other errors such as the 74 Aluminum Cent, 59 Wheat Back Cent, etc just don't have the popularity and although the value is up there, just not as impressive as a coin that everyone talks about.

"If a man beats his male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies as a direct result, he must be punished, but he is not to be punished if the slave gets up after a day or two, since the slave is his property."
Source: Exodus Chapter 21, verse 20

"Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property. You can will them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly."
Source: Leviticus Chapter 25, verse 44

Id take it to ebay and see what it brings on open bidding.