Bronze 1943-S Lincoln Cent Sells In Private Transaction Less Than 2 Months After Public Auction

CoinWorld - Less than two months after being sold at public auction by Heritage Auctions, a PCGS Secure AU-55, CAC, bronze 1943-S Lincoln Cent is resold by private treaty to a new owner.

One of five known bronze 1943-S Lincoln cents has been reported sold for an undisclosed sum in a private transaction March 2, less than two months after the sellers acquired the coin at public auction.

In 1943, the composition for Lincoln cents intended for production at the Philadelphia, Denver and San Francisco Mints was zinc-coated steel. The wrong metal strikes are the result of left-over blanks from 1942 production being retained in equipment and becoming mixed in with the zinc-coated steel blanks. The composition of blanks from 1909 to 1942 was bronze: 95 percent copper and 5 percent tin and zinc.

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