Are the older fake 43 copper cents worth anything?

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• messydesk Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 8, 2011 7:12AM

  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 Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 8, 2011 7:14AM

  I would not even find them interesting. Cheers, RickO

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• tydye Posts: 3,894 ✭✭✭

  January 8, 2011 7:20AM

  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

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• 21Walker Posts: 1,762 ✭✭✭

  January 8, 2011 7:21AM

  They're still fakes, I still have one (copper plated) from the 60's.....

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• Hotfootspin Posts: 430 ✭✭

  January 8, 2011 7:22AM

  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 Posts: 11,633 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 8, 2011 7:23AM

  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 Posts: 13,936 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 8, 2011 7:25AM

  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 Posts: 2,390 ✭✭

  January 8, 2011 7:29AM

  Still a neat item. I would not mind having one as a conversation/educational piece.

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• ambro51 Posts: 13,936 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 8, 2011 7:33AM

  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.

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• PerryHall Posts: 46,739 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 8, 2011 7:34AM

  They're good for testing a magnet but not much else.

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• tydye Posts: 3,894 ✭✭✭

  January 8, 2011 7:47AM

  ambro
  Must be from the same batch as they look very similiar

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• ambro51 Posts: 13,936 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 8, 2011 7:48AM

  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'.

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• DuCrozat Posts: 358

  January 8, 2011 10:36AM

  I found a nice copper-toned 1943 a while back.
  Magnets don't lie, though.

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• drwstr123 Posts: 7,047 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 8, 2011 11:30AM

  Here's mine:
  

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