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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Michael K, post: 2546946, member: 78298&quot;]I copied the OP&#039;s photo so I could enlarge it and look at it.</p><p>Compared to a real 1943 copper, a steel 1943 and a 1948. The 3 looks good.</p><p>What are the possibilities?</p><p>1. The coin is real.</p><p>2. The coin is a steel cent that has been bronzed.</p><p>3. The coin is a counterfeit.</p><p>4. The coin is an altered 1948.</p><p>It doesn&#039;t look like #4 to me, as I have seen those before. The OP says it doesn&#039;t stick to a magnet, so that rules out #2.</p><p>If it is really from 1950, is it a counterfeit? Prob not.</p><p>What interests me, is that while 40 or so are said to have been produced, with a survival rate of 20+, 12 have been identified. (Please update/ correct any of those numbers.) Is the fact that these coins were produced at all 3 mints. Generally, I would think something like this would only happen at 1 mint and not all 3.</p><p>So, there are examples that are still &quot;in circulation&quot;. And a new one does pop up once in a while. I think the last one was an &quot;S&quot; that wasn&#039;t previous known.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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