1943-S Steel 2.9 Copper coated +Zinc steel finish? Experimental Test

No.. More like it was plated by Xian Chow in China!
There were also novelty coins sold once. As stated.. a company would plate them with copper and actually place ads in coin magazines to sell them. You have to be in Numismatics for many years to understand these things

 

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What should be interesting is if the TPG thinks this might be something special (they won't, but play along here), they will seek an opinion from world renowned error experts. Now take a look back at some of the earlier posts in this thread and who made them. I think the OP should take the $50+ authentication fees and use it to bet on the Cleveland Browns to go undefeated this year.

But Hey, it's his gamble. Sometimes you can't help those who don't want to be helped

 

I keep posting this , but many have never thought that plating a cent could be a popular "Joke".
from Numismatic Scrapbook circa 1960. By the way I noticed Bowers had a 1881-CC BU Dollar for 15.25 and BU 1955/55 DDO BU for $125.

I love the Dealers: Inquire for quantity rates
Jim

 

Someone must have forgot I've had the penny for 30 years so it wasn't Next Day Air from China

 

What's funny is everybody always has a example of somebody else's but never their own.?

 

Please send it in, spend your money, because there is no conspiracy going on here. You have a plated steel cent.

 

Honestly, most collectors are not interested in an altered coin so probably don't have one. I have seen lots of them and did have one once. I managed to remove the copper with heat, but the coin was never right afterwards.

 

The XRF test says 53.5% iron. That's what they make steel out of.
How much have you spent on this 2 cent coin so far?
April fools has passed. My troll allotment has been used up.

 

The XRF result posted appears to a screenshot of something D Carr posted about a copper plated steel cent on a different forum, not the OP coin.

One interesting thing about that posting though. It gives an indication of how deeply into the coin an XRF test penetrates. Since the copper plated cent was basically pure copper on nearly pure iron, and since the percentage results were pretty much even between the two, it would appear the test penetrates abut twice the thickness of the plating. If it went deeper the iron content would have been higher, and if it was strickly surface or nearly so the copper figure would have been higher.

 

It is

 

I know i already liked this, but I came across this again and what you said really made me laugh

 

Just so we don't propagate slight science mistakes, what is generally called space is well above the atmosphere portion that contains water vapor and water vapor is needed for rust (hydrated iron oxide to occur in visible amounts. But water vapor in most studies tends to hit zero at 12-18 km ( depending on the study and location), and the amount needed to cause common rust is likely much lower..

But this doesn't change the general gist of the coin discussion, I agree with the majority. Jim

 

WOAH!!!!!
It must be struck on a steel planchet!!!!

 

Three months later and the OP won’t let go of this?

 

Yeah but lets see the reverse. Why are you not showing reverse

 

The OP is not the one that brought the thread back to the top.

 

Ah, OK.

 

Gentleman of the 1943 steel penny,
I've seen plenty, and heard of many,
Get ready, here comes a SEVENTY.
Coming to a grader near you.
"crossing my fingers all the way"

 

How about a picture? We might save you some money.

 

sure.. 70 is reserved for silver proof coins gold coins.