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Help please! What is this? (1943-s Lincoln cent)

jimqjimq Posts: 278 ✭✭✭
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This is part of a cheap coins of the past set. The 1943-s looks to have more of a blue tint than the silver coins. When I was a kid in the 70s I bought a 1943-s with the same blue tint (memory of 50 years ago could be wrong. Anyway were all new steel cents like this and then worn down with use? I don't think it's worth anything but I collect cards not coins so if that's a dumb question forgive me.

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  • tincuptincup Posts: 5,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I suspect it may be plated?

    ----- kj
  • MICHAELDIXONMICHAELDIXON Posts: 6,530 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The coin has been plated.

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  • FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 5,859 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Plated & corroding…….

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  • jimqjimq Posts: 278 ✭✭✭

    Thanks guys!

  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,421 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That kind of plating was very common during the 1960's.

    All glory is fleeting.
  • braddickbraddick Posts: 24,166 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I love thread that poses a question in the title and then proceeds to answer it, in the title.

  • Steven59Steven59 Posts: 8,929 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Also looks to have been in a bezel.

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