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Pillar of the Community
United States
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might be replated, can't see the coin here due to the oversize photo
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Kinda looks reprocessed?  |
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Re-plated. John1  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Of course they look like this, it's been re-plated.
If you purchased these as "unsearched" they have no doubt been searched and that was purposely placed in there.
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New Member
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Don't know how something in The horde would be replated, but who knows?
Edited by xtranrml
04/09/2023 6:59 pm
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sure looks re-processed - you can see the 'orange peel' affect from an improper cleaning before it was plated. Besides, a new 1943 cent would never look that shiny - they had more of a matte finish. If I were to re-plate a Wheat cent like this to hide as an 'Easter egg' in an "unsearched roll", I would plate a 1944 cent. |
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Edited by datadragon
04/09/2023 8:07 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Sadly, it's been plated. I've found dozens of 'nice' plated steel wheats over many years.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Just part of the con job.  Trying to sucker you into buying another junk roll. Edited by Coinfrog
04/09/2023 9:23 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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I agree with the others.
A big giveaway is the "Proof-like", very shiny appearance.
In your first image, the edge should not be shiny either since the original zinc coating was put on the blank sheets prior to punching out the blanks.
There should be no zinc coating on the edges.
(And may even be a few light rust streaks since there should be no zinc on the edge to protect the underlying steel.)
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Pillar of the Community
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Back in the old days (1960's) these things were replated by the jillions. Replaters would advertise in the weekly coin papers looking for collectors wanting to get ugly, rusted steelies replated. For each roll that was sent in they'd strip the zinc and rust, replate them and send half of what you originally sent in back to you. So, if you sent in 10 rolls you'd get back 5 rolls of nice and shiny replated coins. Not a bad deal at all!
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Bedrock of the Community
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Rings a faint bell, thanks!
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That sucks bro at first I was jealous then after reading the replys I felt bad.. I guess we should always trust our first gut feeling like you said skeptical also learned something new about replating. Good luck to you sir
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Pillar of the Community
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Forget the "horde" part, these are just common date wheat cents given a catchy name as a sales gimmick. These replated steel cents are very common, and worth very little. These rolls may be fun to look through but they are not going to have anything of value. For what you paid for a roll, you could most likely have gotten a nice original uncirculated steel cent.
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 to the CCF Sorry it fooled you at first. It's all part of the 'unsearched roll' scam. |
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Posted 04/09/2023 6:49 pm
