1943 "copper" "bronze" "shell caseing" one cent...

With 90+ hours of study about this one particular coin type, I should think you might know more about your coin than the rest of us combined.

Now, I'M really curious. Why haven't you sent it in for certification. Use registered mail and send it to ANACS or ICG and you should be able to get their professional opinion for less than $50. THEN IF GENUINE, get it into PCGS slab to get more money.

PS If someone sold it to you for a few bucks, don't get your hopes up.

 

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i hope we do get to hear more about it, and you just dont vanish.

 

Someone has a quote on this forum that says something like " once you eliminate the impossible, however immprobable, you are left with the truth. Process of elimination..all Im doing...and yes this coin will be either certified genuine or fake in the next month by someone qualified to make that judgement..once again thx for the opinions and input. Might I add the jeweler and coin dealer told me to get numerous opinions( wich I'm doing ) as he personally was told a dime he brought to a show wasn't worth five dollars but the very next one gave him $850.

 

I will surely let you all know either way

 

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Yes The " wing cent" was called a fake for 40+ yrs allmost forgotten before recently comeing to light and selling for 1+mill.

Is there anyone certified by pcgs or the likes on this forum?

 

Oy vey....

There's a certain Supertramp song coming to mind right about now... If you've already decided to submit it, just do it. Creating a "buzz" like this is a waste of time.

 

The chances are it isn't real. If you actually paid "a sum of money", then whoever sold it to you knows it has value, and why wouldn't they sell it for $100,000+?
You got taken, or, as many people have done before on these forums about the 1943 you are trolling, you know it is not authentic.
The chances that it is either plated, altered, or straight out counterfeit outweigh the chances it is real by 1 billion to 1.

 

Appologies... I majored in marketing lol... And I hope my love of coins and searching for one of these is not, a waste of time that is.

 

Touche'!
I am niether..i researched first to see what the best known and declared fakes sell for 20-600.... Then I decided it is a good gamble being non magnetic, out of U.S. circulation for some time, and not being from a coin dealer. As you state, I may be trolling? ...No this coin is not for sale at this time nore do I claim its authenticity......It is in my possesion and I am the biggest skeptic of all you.

 

If it was real it will create it's own buzz, no reason to try and stir one up until it is graded.

 

Will the pcgs photo grade app be able to tell me? I would just really like to know before I drive a few hundred miles takeing time off work to get it certified and attend an auction....Jan25th-27th in vegas for example. Anyone have Roger Durbbens phone# lo? Lol

 

Anyways thx for the welcome, I look forward to shareing more coins with you all , seeing yours and learning more. Again thx for the input.

 

No. Something like that if you really believe it is real you just have to send it in and see how it comes back.

 

I can respect that, and certainly can your love of coins and searching, but if your goal was to create a buzz, you're taking the wrong (and backwards) approach. This could also, depending on the who's and when's, be considered "self-promotion" which is a no-no here.

As for taking off work to travel in order to submit, I do hope you reconsider. Even if (IF) it was deemed real, there's no reason to just show up at an auction; it's not like they're going to make a spot for you then and there, and even if they would, doing so goes against your stated desire to create a buzz. Seriously, do yourself a favor and slow down. Even if only for your own peace of mind, just sub it to ANACS and if (IF!) it comes back genuine, only then start worrying about traveling or getting in top tier plastic. In the long run you'll be happy you did.

That said, $20-$600 for a novelty fake seems like an awful lot when one so inclined can simply buy one from Ali for change, mostly due to the UPU BS. On the other hand, sometimes people do pay far too much for dumb things, but if I was you, I'd do everything possible to keep my expenditures to an absolute minimum.

https://m.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-1943-copper-penny.html

 

What is a "wing cent?" Can you please post a link?

 

I tried to google it but I kept getting links for 50 cent wing nights and now I am hungry

 

couldn't we just do a one of these... @mikediamond ?

 

[...] just send it in to get graded and see if it's real. Problem solved.

 

Check in. Another crackpot?

 

That was Dunston checks in. The movie.