This is how they look sometimes overtime so please folks keep them original.No matter how much you like shiny etc don't ruin coins like this its a disaster for the long haul.Good example for the folks who are thinking about getting this done to them.Now I'm thinking about just spending both if I even can.
Thats exactly what I'm going to doThey didn't look like that before when they arrived in the lot of wheat cents I got from ebay.I thought at some point they would be trouble now the time has come.
Wow! Will they all become like that eventually?! I remember getting a free one from Littleton about 2 years ago. I just went to check. It still looks okay. Here: But now, what I'm gonna do is take another look in a year or so and compare to this photo, which I'll use as a baseline reference.
While I agree about leaving them as original as possible, does anyone know where they reprocess cents. I,ve seen my fair share of them, but I.ve never seen an offering to do the dirty deed. For higher grades, I would have to trust a slabbed coin. I don't know if I can tell them apart.
I think your LWC is reprocessed. (Plated) The surface looks to me un-natural. There is no way a '43 LWC with original non corroded surfaces would be given away.
It is rather easy: reprocessing is done in a solution , so even the edge is covered with the zinc. Real non-processed coins, the edge shows a "steel" color ( dull gray) or rust , because the core of the cent was a steel planchet punched from a zinc coated steel sheet. Jim
Yeap - my free one is definitely reprocessed. Even said so on the Littleton envelope. That's why I wrote that I'm going to check it every year or so to see how it degrades over time.