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1943 bronze wheat

What are you thoughts . coin is for sale

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  • PocketArtPocketArt Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Even without seeing the obverse...Shanghai surprise?

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Where is it for sale? What other pictures are there? Who is the seller? Why is it not slabbed? Cheers, RickO

  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,606 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 9, 2017 5:24AM

    My thoughts? I think that;
    1. It is REQUIRED to be certified by a reputable grading service, like our host, to determine authenticity and to be taken seriously.
    2. start with 1

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  • JBKJBK Posts: 16,434 ✭✭✭✭✭

    With all due respect, how can anyone give an opinion without seeing the obverse?

  • BStrauss3BStrauss3 Posts: 3,700 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Fake.

    From that picture, I have no way to be certain, other than the odds. But given the odds... FAKE, heck the obverse could be a muled pic of Bugs Bunny for all I know.

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  • OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭

    What exactly is for sale ? a 1943 & a bronze wheat ?

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  • JBKJBK Posts: 16,434 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It's the new math: 1943 cent + random bronze cent = 1943 bronze cent.

  • TreashuntTreashunt Posts: 6,747 ✭✭✭✭✭

    zero chance

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  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,755 ✭✭✭✭✭
  • PRECIOUSMENTALPRECIOUSMENTAL Posts: 961 ✭✭✭✭

    This is a joke, right?

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,246 ✭✭✭✭✭

    so wheres the obverse?

  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    What, without seeing the obverse?

  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 35,884 ✭✭✭✭✭

    wrong forum

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  • giantsfan20giantsfan20 Posts: 1,706 ✭✭✭✭

    This chracter is trying to sell Fake sports card on BSt. This forum sure is attracting lots of new posters lately :#

  • giantsfan20giantsfan20 Posts: 1,706 ✭✭✭✭

    For what its worth scammer you been reported :#

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    No further information/posts.... must have been a fake.... Cheers, RickO

  • I have been away..im not selling it but there was a guy in the bay area posting this . ill try to find the obverse

  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,547 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 30, 2017 6:34PM

    Send it in. Way too many fakes. One of the diagnostics of a Copper 43 is that under close magnification there will be zinc "flecks" visible on the coin. The dies transfer that from striking thousands of real 1943 steel Cents.

    Pete

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  • CoinZipCoinZip Posts: 3,253 ✭✭✭

    I would like to know if it weighs correct, and if it passes the magnet test.

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  • cmerlo1cmerlo1 Posts: 7,960 ✭✭✭✭✭

    See if it sticks to a magnet. If it doesn't, submit it. If it really is genuine, your friend is leaving a LOT of money on the table by not doing so.

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  • ldhairldhair Posts: 7,350 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If it's a fake, it's a good looking one. As said, it needs to be weighed and tested with a magnet. It would be really cool if it's real.

    Larry

  • FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If it's a struck counterfeit (and there are LOTS of them)
    the weight wouldn't mean anything. Copper Cent planchets
    are very common, and easy to get.

    And the magnet test would just tell you if it's a copper plated
    Steel Cent - it wouldn't determine if it's a struck counterfeit
    on a copper planchet.

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  • WillieBoyd2WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,272 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It's a Bronze Bonze.

    :)

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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,615 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looks can be deceiving. I wouldn't trust it if it walked in my shop. I would tell the owner to submit it.

  • RogerBRogerB Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The alloy would be different. For most of 1942 the cent alloy was 95% copper, 5% zinc with a trace of tin. One would expect any leftover 1942 planchets to be the Cu/Zn alloy and not the earlier, 95Cu 3Zn 2Sn version. Also after 1947 the proportion of tin increased to about 1% on average.

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,814 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The bright spots in the toning look suspiciously like the Chinese counterfeit finish that has appeared all too often in recent years.

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  • If it is a fake most def a good one

  • giantsfan20giantsfan20 Posts: 1,706 ✭✭✭✭
    edited August 31, 2017 2:37AM

    @Drewbee9 said:
    If it is a fake most def a good one

    Just like those sportscards you trying to peddle :( with a suspect sources of authenticity on BST that nobody has heard of?.

  • KollectorKingKollectorKing Posts: 4,820 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Drewbee9 said:
    If it is a fake most def a good one

    I'd probably pay $10 for it as a conversation piece & to show it off.

  • AMRCAMRC Posts: 4,280 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Someone should start a TPG Service so all of us can be sure stuff like this is real.

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  • drwstr123drwstr123 Posts: 7,049 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @KollectorKing said:

    @Drewbee9 said:
    If it is a fake most def a good one

    I'd probably pay $10 for it as a conversation piece & to show it off.

    Yep...

  • silverpopsilverpop Posts: 6,743 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Fake

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