i am not saying its made of nickel or nickel plated, but nickel can be real shiny. look at a new canadian quarter. i got one in change the other day and had to look up and see if they had proofs and if this could be one. the fields were so shiny, they were mirror like. i never asked a jeweler to weigh anything, you think they will have a problem? and if you can tell its not silver, wouldn't that rule a '57 dime out? seeing is how they were silver?
It's not silver because of that magnetism.. unless it is plated in something magnetic and then re-plated in silver. I still like the idea of a 1943 steel planchet that got lost somewhere in the machinery finally fell back into the conveyer belt and got stamped hehe But I doubt that.
If it could be authenticated as a genuine steel planchet, and the only known specimen, 5 or 6 figure value.
you haven't just taken the coin to a dealer yet? and is that a big die crack in the pic or just a scratch on the reverse?
It's a scratch.. the photo brings it out alot, it's not as visible on the real coin... which raises more questions.. if it was plated then the scratch would have removed the pl.... nvm it could have been plated after the scratch.
I have one just like it, kept it all these years, thinking it was something special. I came across it when I was a cashier.
Hey I just found that my friend had one two so why 1957 I think it's steel coaref because a magnet can't pick it up but shows sings of catch
Back when I was a kid, one of the favorite things for other kids to do was to rub mercury on a cent, and that's the way this coin looks. Of course, people didn't know how dangerous mercury was at the time--most people, that is.