Seems to me you can see where the plating has come off to expose the steel beneath on the right side of the obverse. That would be a clue, but adhering to the magnet is a bigger clue.
This is a clip from a 1962 coin magazine called Numismatic scrapbook. They did very good business, and they show up several times a year.
I literally held my breath and started wondering who could play such a prank on me! Lol! Couldn’t think of anyone even smart enough so I started hoping!!
I’ve seen that before!! I remember reading an article last year about this guy finding his dad’s 1943 pennies and they were made with rare experimental planchets. If I’m correct, they were made mostly of tin but had a copper coating & they weighed in at 6.7 grams. So I was mostly hoping it was like that! Looks like I can sell it to my sister though!! She gifted me a fake coin for my birthday!!!
I knew a fellow who found a ‘43S metal detecting. Told many of us how it was going on the auction block with a starting bid of $1.3M. took it to the local expert who told him it was a ‘48S that somebody split the 8 to make the 3. He did say it was a nice counterfeit.
Well, take a magnet to it and see if it sticks. The first thing right off the bat that I see is that the copper is coming off the steel Penney. So odds are...it's a fake!
I saw a 48 that was altered to be a 1943 almost 50 years ago. As for the copper 1943, even the most recent one that was "discovered" was held in a family safe box for decades. So there really hasn't been any new discoveries for quite a long long time.
Not really considered a forgery. The base coin is authentic. It's just altered post minting in a way that wouldn't fool any buyers of the real thing . . . . . Z
I BOUGHT ONE OF THESE FOR 13,00 FROM CHINA, LOOKS LIKE REAL, WEIGHS LIKE REAL, SORRY TO ASY NOT REAL, JUST A GOOD CONVERSATION PIECE IS ALL