1943-S Bronze penny found in parking lot. Your Thoughts?

Jobessi · February 15, 2012 2:07PM

The president of our local coin club brought this to my attention today. An older couple (Winter Texans) found a couple of wheaties in a parking lot in Edinburg, TX (Where we're from) and out of curiosity brought them into our prez' shop. Low & behold, a bronze 1943-s cent. He tested it, and it isn't magnetic. However, the "3" really looks suspicious. The gentleman even told us he heard about the rare bronze 43 penny. Suspicion #2. Anyways, we took some snapshots, and said we would ask around what other experts thought. In the meantime, we immediately suggested that he ship it off to PCGS for authentication. He said he wanted to wait until we heard back from the experts. Suspicion #3. Below are some snapshots of it. So, experts, whatcha think?

jdimmick · February 15, 2012 2:10PM

45 wrong shape on 3 , should have a tail

JRocco · February 15, 2012 2:11PM

Not with a 10 foot pole

fcloud · February 15, 2012 2:11PM

45s

MsMorrisine · February 15, 2012 2:16PM

Is it real or fake?

yes.

JamesMurray · February 15, 2012 2:18PM

My years of roll searching does pay off occasionally , i'm no expert but happy to add even i thought it a 5 at first glance.

Jobessi · February 15, 2012 2:31PM

<< real or fake? yes. >>

Since the question was about the authenticity of the 43-s bronze penny, the "real or fake" comment was referring to the implied. Real=authentic 43-s bronze penny?