Like most who enter numismatics I have read about the 1943 copper lincoln everyone looks for. However, the redbook mentions that some 1944's were mistakenly struck on steel planchets. Anyone ever seen one? What kind of value do they carry? Just curious. Troy
That depends - If you can find a real one, name your price. What anything that rare sold for last time has no predictive value as to what it would go for this time. On the other hand, there are probably tons of fakes out there (or at least a few hundred pounds ), that are worthless. Reworked dates, and white metal plating are the most common methods used, and neither one creates something to pass the first test - if it doesn't stick to a magnet it's not genuine.
According to PCGS popultion reports: 1944 "steel" cents: 1 - AU55 1 - MS64 1944-D 'steel" cents 1 - AU53 So count them...THREE (and that is just with PCGS) and as ROY mentioned, many times more fakes. So if you have one, I would believe the bidding would start at a minimum of $25,000. Keep searching...
Thanks for the links, very interesting stuff. The more I learn about lincolns the more I enjoy collecting them. It is amazing to me that a coin that the vast majority of people do not even bother with can be so valuable. I can rememeber times before I started collecting when I would drop pennies and not stop to pick them up. Who knows what I may have dropped. Kind of like when I used to put baseball cards in the spokes of my wheels on my bike to make "motor" sounds, who knows what I might have ruined. Oh well, hopefully if I ever dropped any lincolns of value it made it into the hands of a collector somewhere.
