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Valued Member
United States
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Last one. Grade?   |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Pics too dark to see surface details clearly.
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Moderator
 United States
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Looks like a re-plate to me. Check the edge. John1  Edited by John1
01/10/2022 2:34 pm
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Valued Member
 United States
362 Posts |
Is that because it's so shiny but under the microscope Lincoln head looks circulated? The edge of the coin does seem odd. It's not smooth like a penny should be.
Edited by Jdford
01/10/2022 2:57 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Again, reprocessed to my eyes and my experience. If you can find an old Coin World magazine from the 1960's you'll find classified ads offering to reprocess steel cents "to make them look new again." For every 100 steelies you sent in you'd get back 50. (The reprocessor kept 50 as his fee for doing the work.) Tens of millions of these things have been reprocessed over the past 60+ years! You've got at least three of them! |
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Forum Dad
United States
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Agree, looks like a plating job. I've had dozens of plated/reprocessed '43 cents. Looks just like them.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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I hope you didn't spend a lot of money for these thinking they were BU . Details reprocessed . Value about 50¢ each .  |
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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Your 3 for 3 with your reprocessed steel cents.
Hope you didn't buy them as they have little value.
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Valued Member
United States
362 Posts |
Return on ebay. They have a stack of them. I bought three to test the buyer. Only 3 dollars a piece. Sent them back an hour ago. Thanks for the feedback! |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Agree, reprocessed and just worth face value.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Edited by BadThad
01/10/2022 8:38 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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the steel cents were made by galvanizing the coin strip before punching out the coins, the edge is bare steel on the originals.
All reprocessed cents are plated with something, can be chrome, or zinc, or whatever they use that's silver colored to do it, but the edge will give them away due to the electroplating process, the edge won't be bare steel and will be plated also.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Another reprocessed coin. AU details.
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Valued Member
United States
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You're correct B-K the edges were exactly like that. I really appreciate the feedback so I know what to look next.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Steel cents look like copper cents with a different color...should have similar luster/cartwheels, just silver in color. Hope this makes sense...may help.
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