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<p>[QUOTE="WaA140, post: 55583, member: 2663"]I did what I should have done first, I searched the internet.</p><p>"At the same time many more thousands of 1943 steel cents were stripped of their zinc plating and replated. These are known as "reprocessed coins," and since they, too, are alterations, they have little or no collector value."</p><p><br /></p><p>Now the question is how to recognize these "reprocessed" coins? I would assume one would look for signs of pitting below the zinc plating and for diminished details. Are there any other tell-tale signs?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="WaA140, post: 55583, member: 2663"]I did what I should have done first, I searched the internet. "At the same time many more thousands of 1943 steel cents were stripped of their zinc plating and replated. These are known as "reprocessed coins," and since they, too, are alterations, they have little or no collector value." Now the question is how to recognize these "reprocessed" coins? I would assume one would look for signs of pitting below the zinc plating and for diminished details. Are there any other tell-tale signs?[/QUOTE]
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