Good evening I've been looking all over to try and find the answer to what i have but i have come up with nothing so I'd like to ask you all what I have. Here are the pictures.
I did its steel. But if you look at the picture it also has what looks to be copper mixed in with it .
It looks like it was copper plated or painted. You might try giving it an acetone bath. Looks like you created two thread for this one.
OP..... There were but a few true 1943 cents minted in a copper composition and they are truly valuable pieces. Last year one of them came up for auction. Because it garnered a great deal of publicity, the Chinese counterfeiters went to work creating fake 1943 copper cents to woo an uninformed public. I would suspect you may be in possession of one of these Chinese knock offs.
Here is a link to another thread here on CT regarding copper plated steel cents. https://www.cointalk.com/threads/1943-copper-plated-steel-cent.346432/
Hi there, penny people! I’ve got a stack of the 1943 steel Pennie’s. Out of this stack I’ve got a couple that are questionable and definitely not the Chinese copper covered ones. I did do the un fathomable coin no no of cleaning them without rubbing much. Just to get to the bottom of them because it was hard to tell… and if they are mixed won’t a magnet still pick them up because it’s mixed and still contains steel!? Also was there a certain mint in which these mixed Pennie’s are known to have or did it happen at all the locations of mint?
There were no mixed copper and steel cents, the legit errors were struck on leftover 1942 copper planchets. Any steel cents with copper showing was done after it left the mint to mimic the rare copper cents.
