1944 steel penny

I'm not sure where ton post this but I have a steel wheat 1944 penny and was wondering who I should talk to about it.

 

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most likely it is worth 1 cent unless it is your luckiest day on the face of the planet, highly unlikely!

 

Steel cents were minted in 1943. An old trick is to electroplate a 1944.

 

Does it stick to a magnet? If not, it ain't steel.

Cal

 

NOTE: You're supposed to smile when you see this photo, but it does get the point across.

Chris

 

Everyone here hopes you have one, but we would like to see it to give you whatever help we can. Can you take a picture?

 

Does it STRONGLY stick to a magnet. A nickel plating could make it weakly stick to the magnet.

 

What's wrong with talking to us? What do you want to know about it?

 

Back when mercury wasn't known to be poisonous (!), it wasn't uncommon to find a penny rubbed with mercury.

 

If any coin of "nickel metal" is attracted to a magnet, then you can bet, that it is not made of nickel.

 

Searcher unfortunately you are completely wrong. Pure Nickel is HIGHLY magnetic. (Canadian five, ten and twenty five cent pieces from 1969 to 1981 are pure nickel. Find one and see how well it will jump to a magnet.) But it loses that property if it is alloyed with more than 8 to 12% of other non magnetic metals. If a coin is plated with nickel that layer is fairly pure so it will attact to a magnet, but there is souch a small amount of metal being atracted to the magnet it usually can't support the weight of the coin it is plated on. But you feel and sometimes see the attraction.

 

This "Maria".... Is just another troll!
Same person posting silly items and questions every single day! Under different names.