Very Strange & Interesting Penny I Found...

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Webs Valued Member United States 88 Posts	Posted 09/24/2019 7:52 pm I know, as most of you do, that a 1943 copper/brass penny is exceedingly rare and expensive. Knowing that, I highly doubt that I have found "it". But this coin is quite unusual. I am attaching pix. (Hopefully I used Irfanview well enough to get the right sizes for the pix.) I took Obverse & Reverse pix, each with & without flash. Visually, the front of the coin has about a 95% normal copper look to it. The reverse looks about 60% steel colored and 40% copperish. It weighs exactly 2.8 grams, so I guess it falls within the tolerance of a steel cent, but I wondered why it would look so copperish and if some of you have ever run across one like it. I had never seen a 1943 penny that wasn't totally a silver/gray. Report this Post to the Staff

chipjones Pillar of the Community United States 819 Posts	Posted 09/24/2019 8:09 pm Is it magnetic Report this Post to the Staff
Webs Valued Member United States 88 Posts	Posted 09/24/2019 8:30 pm Sadly, yes. I just thought that somehow maybe it had been a copper penny that got coated with steel somehow. A long shot, but given that there were some copper cents that year, albeit very few, not impossible. But really, I think the weight killed the whole idea. Still....wondering why it LOOKS like it does. Report this Post to the Staff
KenKat Pillar of the Community United States 4085 Posts	Posted 09/24/2019 8:33 pm Perhaps it is a steel penny that got coated in copper - after it left the mint of course. My 7070 US Type Set My 7100 Lincoln Cent Set (now with updates!) Report this Post to the Staff
just carl Bedrock of the Community United States 20753 Posts	Posted 09/24/2019 8:37 pm I like those. I have three of them now. Copper plated to look like the real Copper ones. If it is magnetic, that is what you have. Report this Post to the Staff
Webs Valued Member United States 88 Posts	Posted 09/24/2019 10:27 pm Ken....enjoyed looking at your sweet 7070 type set....hoq long did it take you to compile it? Report this Post to the Staff
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