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1917 *steel* Wheat Penny?

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Hi there I just wanted to say I have a 1917 steel Wheat penny and it sticks to magnet.
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Val777, if you too have one, that means your coin is plated as well! As others have said, in high school chemistry classes they did some "experiments" involving plating a penny with either silver or nickel (most often). It looks neat, but is only really damage. It makes for a good conversation piece.

True ALL steel pennies were only made in 1943 en masse, and a very few in 1944. If you have an *all* steel cent from any other dates, sorry, they are counterfeits.

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