I worked graveyard last night at the store, and a lady came in. She paid for her merchandise with exact change using bills, but I saw she had a large bag of change. I told her that I could change her coins for bills and she accepted. She had almost fifteen dollars worth of change. I found a bicentennial quarter, then I saw it lying there: the reverse of a very shiny 1943-P steel penny. It's in very good, but lightly circulated condition. I tried to take some pictures, but they were terrible and didn't even come remotely close to giving the coin justice. It's a really nice coin, not quite as nice as my BU '43 but still a very attractive coin. This is the second steel penny I've gotten at work. I obtained the first one a few months back when a regular customer was counting out change and I noticed the steel penny in her hand. I offered her $1 for it and she took it. The obverse on that coin is pretty scratched and the penny probably wasn't worth more than 50 cents but it was in circulation and my mission is to save coins from the furnaces of the mint so I was happy to pay a buck for it. I got the one tonight at face value. I just wonder if it's possible that it was replated at one time. I'm sure it wasn't in circulation the whole time.
