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Page 1 of 2 1 2 >   LinkBack Thread Tools Rate Thread Display Modes 02-24-2006, 01:32 AM   #1 (permalink) dalau Junior Member   Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 14 How to spot a reprocessed 1943 Steel Penny ...... Last edited by Peter T Davis; 03-06-2006 at 01:52 AM.   02-24-2006, 06:00 AM   #2 (permalink) xeno108 Senior Member     Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 433 that's pretty shiny   02-24-2006, 06:55 AM   #3 (permalink) Charlie32 Coin Collector     Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Edmond OK Posts: 1,176 That looks like it was reprocessed. Charlie __________________ ANA J-1213365 CSNS J-9619 YNA #62 Join the Young Numismatists of America   02-24-2006, 07:03 AM   #4 (permalink) xeno108 Senior Member     Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 433 my thoughts exactly...   02-24-2006, 12:49 PM   #5 (permalink) mrbrklyn CEO of Brooklyn     Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Brooklyn Posts: 10,162 My Mood: Blog Entries: 3 Didn't Steel Penny's have an outer shell? __________________ "The tremendous problem we face is that we are becoming sharecroppers to our own cultural heritage -- we need the ability to participate in our own society." Coin Talk Museum Exhibits http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins.html   02-24-2006, 01:47 PM   #6 (permalink) SeatedLibLover Member   Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 66 Quote: Originally Posted by mrbrklyn Didn't Steel Penny's have an outer shell? and a chewy center? __________________ -------- SeatedLibLover Why you should be hoarding copper cents.   02-25-2006, 10:14 PM   #7 (permalink) dalau Junior Member   Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 14 hmm..thanks for the insight. what exactly are reprocessed pennies? edit: are reprocessed pennies worth much?   02-25-2006, 10:40 PM   #8 (permalink) Mikjo0 Numismatist     Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Fairfax,VA Posts: 2,321 Reprocessed means the cent has been replated with zinc to make it shiny again.Unfortunately,this brings the value down to almost nothing.Here is what a run of truly uncirculated coins look like.Notice the lustre patterns,that's the way to tell the difference.Of course there is a possibility that yours was just shined up but it still is worth only a bit above face value.You actually did well to get $3.25 for it in my opinion. Here's a good thing to read. http://www.usmintquarters.com/steelcents.htm Attached Thumbnails   Last edited by Mikjo0; 02-25-2006 at 11:03 PM.   02-26-2006, 12:14 AM   #9 (permalink) Peter T Davis Man behind the curtain!     Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: New England Posts: 3,168 My Mood: Blog Entries: 1 dalau cheated to post his auction in the marketplace, so I've removed the link. However, this thread might be useful to others, as a guide to recognizing reprocessed steel cents, so I'm going to keep the thread live and move it to the discussion section. __________________ Your Friendly Host Take a moment to answer an unanswered question!   02-26-2006, 12:52 AM   #10 (permalink) Just Carl Numismatist   Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 4,948 From it's apparent excellant condition I'd say it was just a cleaned regular cent. Many 1943 steel cents were put away due to being so strange back in the 40's. I put away many rolls of them. My Dad had a gas station back then and many of the coins I picked out of his change looked like yours due to his oily hands. After all these years I occationally open one of those plastic rolls of the 43 cents I have and many are still coated with that oil. They do look something like yours. However, I think yours was just cleaned.   02-26-2006, 10:56 AM   #11 (permalink) mrbrklyn CEO of Brooklyn     Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Brooklyn Posts: 10,162 My Mood: Blog Entries: 3 The thickness of the letters is a give away. Ruben __________________ "The tremendous problem we face is that we are becoming sharecroppers to our own cultural heritage -- we need the ability to participate in our own society." Coin Talk Museum Exhibits http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins.html   02-26-2006, 10:35 PM   #12 (permalink) Mikjo0 Numismatist     Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Fairfax,VA Posts: 2,321 Good one Mr.B! I never noticed that.If you look at the reverse of the cent and look at the lettering,then go to the link I supplied in my other post and look at the illustration,the letters appear almost twice as thick.Most likely from being over-plated. Attached Thumbnails     02-27-2006, 11:33 AM   #13 (permalink) mrbrklyn CEO of Brooklyn     Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Brooklyn Posts: 10,162 My Mood: Blog Entries: 3 Mik - I don't see were you posted a reprocessed coin. Ruben __________________ "The tremendous problem we face is that we are becoming sharecroppers to our own cultural heritage -- we need the ability to participate in our own society." Coin Talk Museum Exhibits http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins.html   02-27-2006, 11:35 AM   #14 (permalink) Mikjo0 Numismatist     Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Fairfax,VA Posts: 2,321 I was referring to dalau's original photo compared with the one in my last post...sorry.   02-28-2006, 12:26 AM   #15 (permalink) Just Carl Numismatist   Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 4,948 From what I've heard the enlargement of lettering may not be from recoating, but from the wearing out of the dies. Remember these are steel and not a soft copper material so that the dies wore out much faster. As they wear out the letters and numbers appear to grow. Regardless of whichever that coin is the price of those coins is to minimal to worry about what caused the shine.   Page 1 of 2 1 2 > Bookmarks Digg del.icio.us StumbleUpon Google Would you like to support CoinTalk? Coin Talk Code of Honor 1. Post unto others as you would have them post unto you. 2. Keep it clean, like a 1950s family television show. 3. 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