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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jpodles7, post: 1463705, member: 38007&quot;]Ok, Heres the story. I bought unsearched steel pennies in bulk. These were bagged in 1964 so if the coin is fake its an old fake. Whenever i sort steels i use a felt covered magnet first to make sure everything is magnetic. The ones that arnt magnetic are usually very very rusty, Not 1943&#039;s or zinc coated pennies from science experiments. After sorting through all the steels i moved to my non-magmnetic pile. European coins, normals wheats, etc. some of them are un readable and so i soak these in hot vinegar then scrub them with baking soda. When i pulled them out of the vinegar i looked at the copper pennies and they were all bad dates that had black or silver paint making people mistake them for steel but one was still &quot;dirty&quot; it was covered in black crayon that looked like tarnish. I couldnt read the date so i used my shirt to polish off the hot crayon wax and I found the copper 1943 penny. After multiple magnet tests i looked at it under magnification. Everything was perfect, strong stamp light wear on abes head, high points and edges, a few knicks but great condish, the only oddity was a double die reverse and that caused a few things that look like cuds but follow the shape of the lettering. The doubling is to the right and appears on everything (more prominent towards the edges) look at the &quot;M&quot; in &quot;UNUM&quot; the coin is really shiny from the vinegar and my shirt so dont beat on me for cleaning it. It was the only way to tell! <b><u><span style="color: #FF0000">Dont let the luster make you think its fake because its cleaned. It was very tarnished before.</span></u></b> Almost forgot to mention the weight and diameter match perfectly. Anyway heres the pics, sorry for the long story. I have the coin in an airtight slab right now. Thanks so much.</p><p>[ATTACH]183207.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]183208.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]183213.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]183214.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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