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1943 Steel LWC Is It A Fake?

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 Posted 08/29/2010  10:00 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coop to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The surfaces on a BU 43 should look like this:
1943-Steel-LWC-Is-It-A-Fake?
No shiny and looking like plating over the coin. Reprocessed. Probably the coin reprocessed were rusty and cleaned with a buffing brush before plating. Distorting the natural surfaces that were there and covering it with a false coating. This coating enhances imperfections on the coin and makes it look like something is there, when it wasn't during the striking process. Kind of a PMD of a different type done to ruin the value of these coins.
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 Posted 08/29/2010  4:20 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Indian1 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Now thats a good shot of the coin. Be nice to find a few choice unc's
like that one. Good study pic. also. Look at the fields and devices
on this coin as well as the tone.
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 Posted 08/31/2010  10:38 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Scooby Due to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Am I the only one intrigued with the position of the "P"? Have I just not looked at enough steelies to determine that this is normal?
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 Posted 08/31/2010  10:51 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Indian1 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I am assuming you mean the P in "pluribus"
I looked at a bunch of both P and D mint coins
and they all look like that.
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