That description pretty much establishes it as a fake. A steel cent would not "flop" in response to a magnet. It would slam into it with great...
It's probably just stained. I run into copper-colored nickels, dimes, and quarters all the time. Scrape the edge against a fine sharpening stone...
Blowtorch job. The coin was subjected to a tightly focused source of intense heat, which caused gas expansion. I see these alterations all the time.
Is it attracted to a magnet as strongly as a 1943 steel cent? Possibilities include a genuine steel cent struck on a slightly thick planchet, a...
I don't see a raised area, just an area that's been flattened, roughed up, and distorted by some sort of impact or compressive force.
Yes, it was damaged outside the Mint. There is no cud.
The 1955 cent shows die deterioration doubling ("poorman's doubled die"). The 1935 cent is covered with glue. The 1919 and 1939 cents show...
It was dissolved in acid and then subsequently circulated.
Classic machine doubling. The marginal shelving is unmistakeable.
It's machine doubling. The marginal shelving is characteristic. This is a common area to see machine doubling on Washington quarters.
Your photo is too poor to make any sort of determination.
About $10 - $15.
The fact that copper is exposed along the perimeter suggests the coin is plated.
It's a capped die strike. The coin was struck through a late-stage die cap.
The letters read backward, which means they are incuse. Which in turn means that a cent was pressed into a substance that was on the surface....
It's a significant error, worth up to $80.
Soak it in acetone, and the glue will dissolve or turn milky. It's definitely not an error.
It's a misaligned core. Instead of being placed completely in the hole, the core partly overlapped the ring when it was struck.
It's glue. Someone pressed a cent into the glue while it was still soft.
It may be a cent struck on an unplated planchet. But these errors are notoriously difficult to authenticate, especially from a photo. What you...
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