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Is This USA Lincoln Copper 1 Cent

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 Posted 07/26/2011  06:29 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Defender to your friends list
I cant zoom the picture.Maybe this will help

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 Posted 07/26/2011  06:33 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Defender to your friends list
Bigger picture.

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 Posted 07/26/2011  06:53 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Maineman750 to your friends list
Has the look of a struck counterfeit IMO
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 Posted 07/26/2011  07:13 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Bryan1315 to your friends list
I have to say I got a little excited there a little bit even though I do not like this series at all. I am not good enough with this series to comment on if this is a fake or an original but just the fact it is a copper 1943 Cent makes it suspect for being a counterfeit and authenticity is a must on this coin. If it were mine I would ask for more comments and I am going to move this to the modern section to get more responses to your question and if you are still not satisfied I would probably send it off to ANACS to see if it was authentic or not because this is one coin that would definitely be worth the price of grading and shipping fee's if its authentic
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 Posted 07/26/2011  07:43 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Kopper Ken to your friends list
I think the last one sold for over a million. Not much of a chance you got one in MS condition.

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 Posted 07/26/2011  08:10 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add unholyroller to your friends list
My gut tells me it is a 1942 cent where the 2 has been modified into a 3. The 3 just looks really odd but the top curl looks like the top of a 2 to me.
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 Posted 07/26/2011  08:48 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CaptainFwiffo to your friends list
I am certain the date has been tampered with. As soon as I looked at the large picture I could see the 3 was completely wrong. Compare it side-by-side with a steel 1943 and the difference is obvious.
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 Posted 07/26/2011  09:02 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add BadThad to your friends list
LOL! Definately a 42 modified into a 43 by some means. The 3 doesn't look right at all.

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 Posted 07/26/2011  10:11 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Defender to your friends list
Thank you anyway:)
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 Posted 07/26/2011  10:36 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Defender to your friends list
I have one question more.How can you make 3 out of 2.I know that they make 3 out of 8 but this not looks eighter of them.
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 Posted 07/26/2011  11:01 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Tam to your friends list
Well, one way of several, is to either take out the raised metal of the bottom horizontal line of the 2 and add metal for the bottom loop of the 3 by some method {I've heard copper wire being carefully soldered or brazed on}, or push the line into a curve to form the bottom loop of the 3.

There's more to these two methods, but that's the gist.

Now, looking at the coin you show, the 3 could have been removed from another coin, and sort of replace the 2. I see a transplanted 3 more than I do a 2. I don't know how it's done, but it is done.
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 Posted 07/26/2011  11:49 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Defender to your friends list
Thank you very much!
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 Posted 07/26/2011  3:00 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add flotsam to your friends list
that 3 looks totally strange, seems like a forgery
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 Posted 07/26/2011  4:20 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add matchbox to your friends list
An enlargement of your photo:.

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A 1943 steel cent "3":

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Article on the bronze cent:

http://www.scvhistory.com/scvhistor...r092008.html

a 1943 copper cent:

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Interesting.
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 Posted 07/27/2011  01:05 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Defender to your friends list
This is the same coin when I scanned it.

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