1943 copper penny 1 1

[Moneybagg ko]

[Moneybagg ko]

I found this in some change I had a few months back its copper not steel it does not stick to a magnet 

[JT2]

i wouldnt spend it...i would burry it in the back yard and forget about it.  it isnt real

[Woods020]

It sure doesn’t look like 1943 is the date to my eyes. 

[comicdonna]

The first 3 digits are 191?

[Moneybagg ko]

That's the best pics u can get with a phone it is a 4 it looks like a one in pics 

[JKK]

It might look like a 4, but until there's an image worth looking at, it's a 1. Everything about it looks like a worn teens penny.

[Henri Charriere]

43 minutes ago, JKK said:

It might look like a 4, but until there's an image worth looking at, it's a 1. Everything about it looks like a worn teens penny.

I concur.  Bailiff, call the next case.

[Henri Charriere]

Just now, Quintus Arrius said:

I concur.  Bailiff, call the next case.

 

[RWB]

The cent in the photo is dated 1918 or possibly 1915. The photo quality is too poor to be sure.

[BigDaddy3416]

I thought that I had found one also but it was just a toned steel penny. The date and wear on yours appears to be an early teens coin. It gets exciting just thinking that there are more out there though, good luck.

[Henri Charriere]

17 hours ago, JT2 said:

i wouldnt spend it...i would burry it in the back yard and forget about it.  it isnt real

A genuine '43, or counterfeit?

[Moneybagg ko]

On 3/7/2021 at 9:57 AM, Quintus Arrius said:

A genuine '43, or counterfeit?

 

[Moneybagg ko]

On 3/7/2021 at 9:57 AM, Quintus Arrius said:

A genuine '43, or counterfeit?

It not a fake it's hard to get it in pics because its worn but it says 43 no one on here th wakes the time to see that they automatically say that's not a 43 but it is it's just hard to get the pic when it's already worn 

[Moneybagg ko]

Just now, Moneybagg ko said:

It not a fake it's hard to get it in pics because its worn but it says 43 no one on here th wakes the time to see that they automatically say that's not a 43 but it is it's just hard to get the pic when it's already worn 

It looks like it's been stamped twice because of how wide the date appears

[Coinbuf]

The real reason its hard to get pics that show it to be a 1943 is because it is not a 1943 coin.

[Moneybagg ko]

On 3/6/2021 at 6:18 PM, RWB said:

The cent in the photo is dated 1918 or possibly 1915. The photo quality is too poor to be sure.

 

[Henri Charriere]

41 minutes ago, Coinbuf said:

The real reason its hard to get pics that show it to be a 1943 is because it is not a 1943 coin.

Devil's advocate here... Okay, you've got a genuine '43. Now that you've got it -- and 99.44% of all viewers here agree -- what are you going to do with it? The only thing you have not done, but can do: submit it for authentication.

[JKK]

Might be 1912, but I'm not going to try to convince someone who will not be convinced. By all means send it in for grading, and when you get the results back, post them and laugh at all the unbelievers. Give it to us with the bark on. Otherwise, you will be just one more in the long line of people who insisted he was right but didn't really believe it.

[RWB]

A better photo will help....but it does not look like anything except a date in the teens. (Remember the HS Prom -- and those teen dates? Always had to buy a corsage for the girl.)

[VKurtB]

It is not a 1943 cent. Forget it.

[l.cutler]

Definitely not a 1943, and I did take the time to look at it.  The third number does not look at all like a 4, and the fourth number does not extend down far enough to be a 3.  Look at the tail of the 3 on a 1943, it loops down as low as the tail of the 9.

[Moneybagg ko]

On 3/6/2021 at 6:18 PM, RWB said:

The cent in the photo is dated 1918 or possibly 1915. The photo quality is too poor to be sure.

 

[Moneybagg ko]

[Moneybagg ko]

[Reno Raines]

To me it looks like a 1913 or 1915 Lincoln cent but my vision isn't what it used to be. In any case in the condition it's in it's simply not worth grading. JMHO.

[Chickenswoup]

It doesn’t matter how many pictures you will take with a phone, it will still be too worn out to tell, you should get a digital microscope, if you are serious about collecting. Even if you are just getting into it(like I am) it really helps with determining which coin you have at hand, or it would help this community determine for you, by providing a much more detailed picture.

[Chickenswoup]

[VKurtB]

I have to dissent on the recommendation of a digital scope. Garbage. Maybe an optical one, but not some junky USB embarrassment. 

[Henri Charriere]

[Editorial comment:  wait till Just Bob gets a hold of this thread and finds there is still no definitive explanation for why, after 30 posts, the OP continues to see a 1943 squarely against the current flow of popular opinion that maintains minus the corsage the coin is teen-aged.]