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1944 steel wheat penny?

dust3110dust3110 Posts: 75 ✭
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What do you think about this coin? Magnetic and weighs 2.73 grams.

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  • PTVETTERPTVETTER Posts: 5,962 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Look OK but I without reservation would sent it to our host
    Opinions hear will not carry much weight

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  • AkbeezAkbeez Posts: 2,696 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Weight about right, too light for a zinc plated bronze. Likely a fake, coin doesn't look right. Rev rim very wide. Look close for a possible added 4 in the date. Would need better pics to really see. Chances are very, very slim it's authentic.
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  • morgandollar1878morgandollar1878 Posts: 4,006 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Maybe it's the pics but the date and some of the letters look off to me. I say counterfeit.

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  • HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 4, 2018 6:09PM

    Clear close-up pic on the date and MM, please.

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  • privatecoinprivatecoin Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Doesn't look right to me.

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  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,382 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Odd look. Send it in for authentication if you really want an opinion that means anything to the "market".

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  • yosclimberyosclimber Posts: 4,813 ✭✭✭✭✭

  • dlmtortsdlmtorts Posts: 735 ✭✭✭

    The 4’s look different. Maybe the last 4 was changed from a 3?

  • RegulatedRegulated Posts: 2,992 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I've handled enough real ones to know they don't look like that.


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  • 1Mike11Mike1 Posts: 4,416 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I think its counterfeit but would be nice to have clear close-ups.

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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,263 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Did it come with chopsticks?

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  • Namvet69Namvet69 Posts: 9,021 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Someone needs to do some research and examine known examples of this coin. I think it's a fake and a replate. IMO. That rev rim is strange. Peace Roy

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @dust3110 ....Welcome aboard.... You should send the cent in to a TPG for authentication. It is likely a counterfeit as Fred W. indicated.... Cheers, RickO

  • seanqseanq Posts: 8,676 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The date, the mint mark, and the proximity of LIBERTY to the rim all raise flags to me. Possibly an Asian counterfeit.

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  • lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 8,160 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Agreed. The second 4 looks tooled. Then, perhaps the coin was placed in some sort of collar and re-struck??? I'm trying to wrap my mind around how those rims got so flat....

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  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,249 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I vote counterfeit.

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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,093 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It looks like something the Chinese cooked up.

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  • giantsfan20giantsfan20 Posts: 1,559 ✭✭✭✭

    Just like your 43 Bronze Cent question wheredid you find item? :#

  • JBKJBK Posts: 15,700 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 5, 2018 10:02AM

    @giantsfan20 said:
    Just like your 43 Bronze Cent question wheredid you find item? :#

    Thx for the reminder.

    A few weeks ago this poster brought us two 1943 bronze cents and now a 1944 steel cent. :#

  • AkbeezAkbeez Posts: 2,696 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @JBK said:

    @giantsfan20 said:
    Just like your 43 Bronze Cent question wheredid you find item? :#

    Thx for the reminder.

    A few weeks ago this poster brought us two 1943 bronze cents and now a 1944 steel cent. :#

    @JBK Are you thinking we are part of a QC trial review of some new "errors" coming out?

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  • HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Akbeez said:

    @JBK said:

    @giantsfan20 said:
    Just like your 43 Bronze Cent question wheredid you find item? :#

    Thx for the reminder.

    A few weeks ago this poster brought us two 1943 bronze cents and now a 1944 steel cent. :#


    @JBK Are you thinking we are part of a QC trial review of some new "errors" coming out?

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  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Won't Ali Baba make anything you want now?

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