A SHOCKING DISCOVERY !!

[TORRERO]

Yesterday I threw a bunch of coins including some wheats into my cleaning bucket and left them..
This morning I was going through them and this is what I saw / found
I don't know or understand this... first pick is what I saw and I said, why is there a silver wheat in all this.. and as I looked closer I could see the date 1943
I don't know where this came from.... I had dug maybe 7-8 wheats in Chester SC on saturday and I threw them along with some that were sitting on my desk..
I only have had 1 steel penny in my life and I think I sold it at auction last month... sooo I don't know where this came from.
Second picture is of what I believe is a steel penny dug in Chester next to a wheat and 41 nickel... clearly rusted...

Last pick is of Zinc pennies after cleaning... and I throw these away, I just don't see it as worth my time to fool with these eat up like this...
Any Ideas ?

 

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[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

These 3 "coins" came from the same hole, a 41 nichel, a 42 wheat and this round rusted thing...
I have not seen anywhere that said that steel pennies were "Galvanized" before they were released for circulation.
So I still don't know how I got this, I found the other steel cent that I thought I had sold, so I didn't make a mistake and clean one I already had..
Plus the fact that I generally don't dig Iron targets and this is clearly Iron as it sticks solid to a magnet..

If you find one that wasn't zinc on steel I buy it from you.

 

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[daddyflea]

Maybe you detected the Copper Wheat and after checking the hole, you found the Steel Penny, and just never thought your Detector might have Discriminated it out.

 

[pepperj]

Maybe you detected the Copper Wheat and after checking the hole, you found the Steel Penny, and just never thought your Detector might have Discriminated it out.

When a person is running their machine wide open, round, metal with a hole, curved, steel spoon bowls, just to name a few will sound different.
Then again from digging for over 50 years even a blind squirrel will find a few nuts.