1943 copper in HERITAGE-Scarface var.

compromonedas

Too bad somebody found this was copper using a nife
1943
Keith

DUIGUY

I think I would rather have a counterstamped piece.

zkcoins

someone was angry with that coin.

SpaceMonkey

that's just a redneck serial number

/ed

Coxe

PCGS had to determine it was genuine some way. (Just kidding, guys.)

MoneyLA

check the archives. David Hall wrote about that coin, and why it was slabbed that way.

cheers, Alan Mendelson
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PerryHall

<< <i> someone was angry with that coin. >>



No. Someone "tested" the coin to make sure it wasn't a copper plated steel cent. PCGS should slab all problem coins like they did this coin but they should list the problem on label. A coin like a 1796 half dollar should be slabbed even if it was holed and repaired.

Boom

Man .... that is just downright DUMB. All the JA had to do was find a magnet!

For cryin' out loud! Some people!!

Geeez.

coinkid855

I can just see the person doing this. See, this is just a copper plated steel cent....OMG it's not!! Oh crap! haha

Boom

Yeah. I'll bet he felt really bright when he showed his friend that it's a counter ... oooh sheeut!

RBinTex

So, PCGS slabs problem coins now?

Coinosaurus

Still worth a bundle.....this is already a classic coin.......one of the few that the public is fairly familiar with....

commoncents05

That just sold in a Goldberg auction less than a month ago. Let me see if I can find it.

-Paul

commoncents05

Looks like the seller is trying to double his money.....

Link to auction.

-Paul

Broadstruck

There's a few Steel 1944's coming up at Heritage soon, fun to see what they bring?

66RB

I started a thread about this in September when it was up for auction.

According to that auction, it was a paperboy who gouged it up:

from the September auction:




<< <i><< The history of this particular 1943 copper cent has an interesting twist to it. At one point, it's ownership fell to a young paperboy (age not given). For some reason, possibly to test that it was really copper and not copper-plated-steel, he put a cut onto the face of Lincoln and also tested the field with a few scrapes. This was in an era when full page advertisements pro claiming the rarity of the 1943 copper cents were splashed across the nation's press and on the inside back covers of popular magazines and comic books, so any savvy youngster would naturally be on the lookout for such a score. Our consignor bought the coin at the Dearborn Michigan Coin Show around twenty years ago for $19,000. It has been with his family ever since. The coin also comes with a notebook full of articles about 1943 copper cents. >> >>



other thread

compromonedas

<< <i>Looks like the seller is trying to double his money.....

Link to auction.

-Paul >>


No wonder he refused my 10G offer!
Keith