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Message:: [QUOTE="JCro57, post: 3098524, member: 92083"]Steel cents are known for corroding, and many do so in different ways (flaking, peeling, pitting, rusting), illustrating different colors and shades of color, like grey, blue, black, and reddish-brown when they start to rust. Also, some stick to a magnet with greater force than others. Copper coins do corrode as well, but not in the manner that your coin has. It is also the proper weight for a steel cent even at 2.9 as it is within the tolerance level. I totally understand that this has been in your family for a long time, and that there has been an oral history passed down about the mystique of what appears to be something unique and potentially exciting. It is human nature to not want to be let down, and to discover that something which fascinated your family for a couple generations really isn't valuable can be hard to accept; it can also be embarrassing. However, your coin featured above is absolutely, 100%, without a shred of doubt, not a copper-based 1943 cent nor an experimental one of different metallic origins. And it is even less likely (and more absurd) that it was a copper cent which someone - for some reason - would then go and plate with a magnetic metal. It is a normal steel cent and nothing more. I am sorry to have to disappoint you and let you down, my friend. But it is not a unique piece here.[/QUOTE]