Perhaps you could start out by posting actual full-sized photos of your coin. This is a very common question, and one that thus far never ends well, so let's take one step at a time...
Thanks, Jacobb; I appreciate the effort, but am having a hard time seeing a steel cent, at least from your photos. You say it's magnetic? Have you compared it to a known 43 steel in how it attracts to whatever magnet you're using?
And is why I'm trying to help you in a way that may be useful down the line, and with other coins, should you choose to stick with the hobby. I suppose you could weigh it, yes, and if memory serves me, steel cents should be 2.7 (? - someone correct me if wrong), but to be straight with you, I cannot see the coin well enough to tell exactly what is on your coin or if it's corrosion, etc. if you've a proper exacting scale, give it a shot. Chances you you're mistaken, yes, but please understand I say this only because a genuine 44 steel is a very rare coin, and not because I fault you in any way. Again, do you have a 43 steel cent you can compare it to? If your coin was a steel cent, it should jump at the magnet as soon as it's close enough, and is why I suggested said comparison. Even though another gentleman mentioned plating, I can see no evidence of it, but plated coins can sometimes be somewhat magnetic yet nowhere near that of a steel cent. Unfortunately, when it comes to coins, what you think you see isn't always what you actually have. If you search through older threads here, you'll likely find examples of someone thinking they've found a 43 copper or 44 steel, often insisting on it, when their coin was simply plated or fake, or corroded to the point where unidentifiable. This is fairly common, and is why one must look a little deeper in order to discover what they really have. We'll figure it out and hopefully learn something in the process.
