A brief study of 1943 wartime cents

The edge should be a different color than the faces. Refer to post #2.

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.

That one is original, but the zinc is oxidizing as it is prone to do.

 

Took pics of this one recently, looks better than the pics

 

Here is a complete set of wartime cents. Capital Plastics never made a holder like this to my knowledge, probably because the coins are not worth enough to rate it.

 

My mother hated them so much that if saw one while vacuuming she said she would just vacuum them up!

 

The government hated they too. The government took millions of them out of circulation. I remember seeing pictures of large numbers of them getting dumped into, I think, San Francisco Bay. You couldn’t get away with doing that today!

 

Triplets.

Z

​