I found a 1944 Steel Penny. Is it real?

I have a zinc plated 2012 penny. I got it at a science fair from a pile of them. Maybe yours came from this travelling science fair i was at too.

Or i may be wrong and you have a coin worth a few thousand dollars.

 

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When I was a kid we use to take mercury and coat the cents with it

 

I had one of those once. Left it in a cheap jewelery box in my parent's house and a burglar took it.

 

Gee... ya really think so?

 

I had always thought that the Belgian 2 franc coins were struck on leftover blanks from the 1943 steel cent fiasco.

 

Round those stell cent weights to two places and you will see that the are the same as the Belgium 2 franc. Some were probably made from left over planchets, some from left over strip, but they made so many of them they probably made some new strip and planchets as well just for the belgium coins.

 

Luster??? LoL! Most of my 43 cents can best be described as ~RUSTY~. True I do have 2 in VG or better without rust, but for the great majority,.. Rusty is the operative word.

 

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Hi i found this looks 1943 d dd copper cent i test it wit magnet ready weight 3.1g got pics

 

Lop

 

Heres more pics any one cud tell me condition please?

 

Back sid3

 

Dnt stick magnet

 

It is a 1942 d not a 1943, it is a perfectly normal cent worth two or three cents, only the 1943 was made of steel.

 

No, it's not steel.

 

I got 1942 cent I compard them I used 10x magnifying glasss not only it looks like 3 but double 3 inthe pics I took the loop is hanging down also emailed pics to local dealer wants to have it authenticated an certified so they would told me 42 but totaly visable on the 3not faded not alter the whole 3 is connected not cut off at a point solid I seen 42 I have 3coins dnt compare u mite want look my pics more carefuly blow the up ull see double three in front of it!!!!!!!!!

 

And what I know during war as in WW2 COPPER RAN OUT STARDED MAKING STEEL CENTS BY ERROR THATS KNOWN 40 COPPER O BRONZE CENT WHERE MADE FROM THE 42 COMPOSITE ONLY 12 KNOW FOUND THERS FAKES DIPED COPPER OR CUTING OFF FRONT O IN HALF 8 BUT TELL ME IF IM WRONG

 

So I think carefully examined it loook like double die 43 d copper cent beautiful specimen! Bs u NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Did you post a photo of the wrong coin? The one pictured is clearly a 1942 that could in no way be mistaken for a 1943.

 

Yea i dont see what your talking about... Not only that but the pics are pretty blurry. It just looks like a original 42d cent...Nothing more.

 

Ok ill take better pics 43 42 coin so u cud see that 2 dnt cuurve down word at the end of it like tat one old 2 stright line of 42 stops sum short at the hump or not passing the hump never passes hump and curve down like a tail and in front of the 3 thers second 3 shy but still visable and in the back