1943 S Steel Penny

@Janice T

If you ever look at a roll of reprocessed 1943 cents, you'll note that most of them will have worn features/devices that when re-plated, will look unusually shiny for the wear. Further, as noted above these cents tend to get mushy in appearance. The added layer softens the features creating a washed-out effect. Your cent actually looks decent for a reprocessed cent as indicated by the details in the wheat stalks. However, these are novelty coins. My Local Coin Shop (LCS) will cull out the original steel cents to sell off to a wholesaler. The reprocessed cents go back into circulation. Fun finds for the folks who eventually get them. But to a collector, they are mainly worthless.

 

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I haven't published this is a while. Back in the 60s ( when published) not many cared for grades or a little cosmetic effects. The same company would also
re-plate the whole coin with shiny zinc ALL OVER, as too much trouble to
mask the edge or give you a fake copper 43

Jim

 

I bought a set of these in the early 70s for 75 cents. As a kid I was clueless about reprocessing. They toned into some crazy colors though.

 

I got some from mountain man, that have colors like this.