Are the older fake 43 copper cents worth anything?

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tydye
tydye Posts: 3,894 ✭✭✭
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Other than a cent. They look pretty good.
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  • messydesk
    messydesk Posts: 20,814 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Do you mean copper plated ones or actual fakes. Fakes struck in copper are worth melt. Copper plated ones have no numismatic value, but perhaps there's a novelty value above 1c.
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  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I would not even find them interesting. Cheers, RickO
  • tydye
    tydye Posts: 3,894 ✭✭✭
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    I found it in a wheat cent lot. I will just throw it back it then for the next person to find. It is a plated example - made that familiar thud
  • 21Walker
    21Walker Posts: 1,762 ✭✭✭
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    They're still fakes, I still have one (copper plated) from the 60's.....
    If don't look like UNC, it probrably isn't UNC.....U.S. Coast Guard. Chief Petty Officer (Retired) (1970-1990)

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  • Hotfootspin
    Hotfootspin Posts: 430 ✭✭
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    It's worth keeping, if just to show unsuspecting others an example of a fake.

    Many dealers keep stuff like this under their counters to educate newbies.

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  • Walkerguy21D
    Walkerguy21D Posts: 12,164 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I found a plated one in a roll of wheat cents once - it appeared to have circulated for a while after the plating, which I thought was interesting.
    Another roll in the group also had an altered 14D.
    Maybe not worth anything, but neat to find nonetheless.
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  • ambro51
    ambro51 Posts: 14,471 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    This is one Ive had since childhood. I bought it from a comic book ad, I think it was 25cents but Im not sure on that., Looks pretty darned good though!

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  • YogiBerraFan
    YogiBerraFan Posts: 2,390 ✭✭
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    Still a neat item. I would not mind having one as a conversation/educational piece.
  • ambro51
    ambro51 Posts: 14,471 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Im no chemist but I think its rather easy to make up a home plating outfit using a D cell battery, weak acidic solution , pure copper anode and a glass tank.

    My Father messed about once nickel plating model T parts with a home made rig in the basement and it actually worked quite well.
  • PerryHall
    PerryHall Posts: 47,753 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    They're good for testing a magnet but not much else.

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  • tydye
    tydye Posts: 3,894 ✭✭✭
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    ambro
    Must be from the same batch as they look very similiar
  • ambro51
    ambro51 Posts: 14,471 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    It did give me a bit of a 'rush' when I re-found it in my parents attic about five years ago. It was laying in my old shoeshine kit I made in 6th grade shop class...along with a bunch of other wheaties.

    Kind of 'ran for the magnet' myself on that one...then I 'remembed'. image
  • DuCrozat
    DuCrozat Posts: 358
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    I found a nice copper-toned 1943 a while back.
    Magnets don't lie, though.
  • drwstr123
    drwstr123 Posts: 7,053 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Here's mine:
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