✅ SOLVED Can a 1943 copper penny be dug?? Did I do it? Help me

[Millerthebugkiller]

So I'm looking at key dates on the ne and figure I'll look up my wheat penny's on by one.....it's pretty rough but tell me what u think should I have it looked at or am I just seeing things....it doesn't stick to a magnet.

 

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[Tony in SC]

My father collects a lot of coins and buys wheaties in bulk. Out of all the thousands he has purchased he has found some fakes. Usually they are plated steel, but people would also take a 1948 cent and cut the 8 into a 3. It almost takes a microscope and an expert to authenticate this. It is highly unlikely to find a 1943 copper cent, because only a small handful has been found and it would make local news to find one that isn't known. My father was born in the early forties and he remembers people looking for these when he was a kid.

There were no 1943 coppers made. Tony

 

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There were no 1943 coppers made. Tony

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[cw0909]

Sorry I'm working with a iPad and the cam is a droid phone my 3 doesn't angle down like the picks u are showing it looks like this number 3 not the bottom part angling down

you can see your coin better,than me and you say the bottom of the 3 doesnt
drop down, in the gov jpg,the bottom of the 3 drops,agreed yours is prob an
altered date to look like a 43,thats cool that you dug it, i found a steel 43 in
change,but its lost now, do the altered 43s have any value,how many could there be

1943 Lincoln Wheat Cent
http://www.usmint.gov/images/about_the_mint/43cent_mock.gif
Because of its collector value, the 1943 copper cent has been counterfeited by coating steel
cents with copper or by altering the dates of 1945, 1948, and 1949 pennies.
The United States Mint · About The Mint