1943 Lincoln Cent - any color designations?

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• BillJones Posts: 34,835 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 22, 2003 10:46PM

  I've never seen any color designations for the 1943 steel cents. I guess you call them "bright", "dull gray" or "reprocessed." Rusted could be a category too, but not really with mentioning.
  
  Right now only the bright Mint State ones are worth slabbing, and only if they are MS-67 or better. The circualted dull gray ones are worth a lot less than a dollar and the "reprocessed" (cleaned and replated to please beginning collectors) are body bag candidates.

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