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    Unanswered: 1943S-1DR-002 - Plated, weak strike, or Struck thru grease?

    I feel fairly confident this coin is not plated but I'd really appreciate your opinions just to be sure.
    I've spilled alotta blood purchasing these with bad pics on eBay over the years but this one's
    different. For starters, I don't see the extraordinary "peeling' effect that plated/re-plated steel cents
    usually exhibit around the devices and particularly around the rims. Secondly, the color is reasonably
    consistent and even where re-plated coins are anything but. The main thing that gives me pause is the
    lack of luster. I shot these pics with zero diffusion under Jansjo lights with their lens caps off. My camera
    exposure and brightness settings were set higher than normal and I still had to brighten these pics a bit
    in post edit to show everything. I did not, however, strengthen these pics at all. Some of the pics seem
    out of focus but they're not. It's either the strike or the plating. My guess is grease and/or weakly struck.

    Many thanks for your time!
    Tracy
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    It's odd you just posted this. Check out Allan's post. http://www.lincolncentforum.com/foru...8-1943S-RPM-MD

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    What does the edge look like? Any rusty streaks there?

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    Not sure about the plating. Is it as textured as it appears in the pictures? But it is a DDR.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Petespockets55 View Post
    What does the edge look like? Any rusty streaks there?
    No streaks. Some chipping but no streaks.

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    The thing about 43 cents is you can erase them and since they are steel and tough they don't get light salmon colored.

    My guess is that this one may not be plated but it might be polished with an eraser.

    They look pretty good if you erase them but look flat with less flow lines showing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Roller View Post
    Not sure about the plating. Is it as textured as it appears in the pictures? But it is a DDR.
    Not quite. These thumbnails came out a bit grainer and multicolored when I resized the pics to fit here. Actual fields are smooth and color is even.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GrumpyEd View Post
    The thing about 43 cents is you can erase them and since they are steel and tough they don't get light salmon colored.

    My guess is that this one may not be plated but it might be polished with an eraser.

    They look pretty good if you erase them but look flat with less flow lines showing.
    That makes total sense to me. Funny you mention this. I was just pondering what soap and water would do to these. Eraser? Hehe. I guess an eraser would do to steel what nose grease does to copper- fade and evade.

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    Quote Originally Posted by duece2seven View Post
    That makes total sense to me. Funny you mention this. I was just pondering what soap and water would do to these. Eraser? Hehe. I guess an eraser would do to steel what nose grease does to copper- fade and evade.
    They look pretty good after erasing, try one, it takes the white stuff off and looks good but flat.

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    Quote Originally Posted by duece2seven View Post
    No streaks. Some chipping but no streaks.
    The blanks were punched out after plating was done. They tend to have a light amount of thin rust colored lines on the edge of the coins since they have no plating on them.

    And chips probably indicate there is plating chipping off that shouldn't be there.

 

 

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