No they don't, they look as natural as the day they were first minted. You will be able to tell one that hasn't been messed with compared to one that has been plated or cleaned.
get though check out, if what I see is correct, 43 is a steel year, and thoses aint steel, but, could be altered from a 48
Heh - didn't say I loved them, just that they were shiny which made me think maybe they had been cleaned. But you got me thinking...what would they grade at (roughly)? And thanks for the opinions so far!
Richard is right their is a lot of 1948 made to look like a copper 1943.I am sure Not 1 Tpg would grade them as copper 1943-PDS.
Rick thinks they are not steel '43's, but are altered copper '48's instead? I guess simply weighing them will tell me if they are actually copper '48's (3.11g) and not steel '43's(2.67g). Gonna have to wait till I get home.
The S coin looks as if the 9 is doubled, can we get a better look at that one? It is a bit blurry because of being on the far right of the photo.
Similarly the reverse of the left coin looks doubled also, is that from the photo or real life shift doub or what?
how can you say they are not steel? look at the cents below them, those r copper, the 43's are nice steel cents!
I think a couple people are looking at the bottom copper coins as the 1943's, and not the lustrous white cents that are the 1943 steel cents.
Got home early today. Weighed the coins - all 3 weighed around 2.75g (well within the accuracy/calibration of my cheapo scale when I weigh known coins). A magnet picked up all of three of them. A few more pictures of each coin... 1943-S 1943 1943-D
