What do you think "1943 s steel Lincoln on wrong planchet" reeded edges

[Guest]

Hi all, I've had this Penny for a while now but never really studied it until today.. But while really checking it out it looks to me like reeded edges around the whole penny, and also looks like it has copper mixed in it, also weighs 2.9g. So tell me what your opinion is on this please. There were mistakes like the silver penny on a dime planchet I found on the web, but the weight differs from mine. Here are several pics to look at. Thank you all for your Help! much appreciated.

[enamel7]

Sorry but that isn't reeding. It's not possible in the minting process. Those are just striations from when the coin was ejected. I also don't see any copper.

[jfines69]

I do not see any reeding either... Appears to have been poorly replated with zinc!!!

[totosue]

So what do you think about the weight of the coin then? The copper weight is 3.11g an the steal is 2.7g and mine IS 2.9g so what do you make of this? Is this normal? I wouldn't think it would be from what I'm learning but I just haven't learned enough yet. Thanks for your help. Ya no my problem is I find coins that look almost if not Identical to mine but I always get knocked back down as a no good or wrong kind of coin so that really throws me off as to what is right an what is not right. Reading it don't do much for me unless I understand what ever word there saying means. If I could just sit an ask about 20 different questions all at once I would have it made Anyway thank you so much for your time

[willbrooks]

If it sticks to a magnet, then it is most likely the correct planchet. There are some common reasons for a planchet to be a little overweight. It could simply have come from some rolled-thick planchet stock, but the weight on yours is not extreme and is basically within mint tolerance. It could also have been plated outside the mint. I seem to find more steelies that have been replated then haven't been! Must have been a very popular experiment at one time. People did it to make the cents look uncirculated again. The striations on the edge are probably a result of whatever post-mint damage this coin has suffered.

[VAB2013]

Hello totosue, I understand your 20 questions statement so don't feel bad about that. That is what this forum is for so feel free to ask away. I don't know much, but I can see why this coin has you confused. Like yourself, I see lines on the edge of the coin that look similar to the reeding on a dime, but not exactly the same. I think what the experts here are saying is that at some point before you got the coin, someone attempted to re-coat it with zinc. Maybe to try to make it shiny again for a jewelry piece, etc. and they did not do a very good job, or some of the re-coating has come off. The extra layer of zinc added could be what is making the coin weigh 2.9 grams, instead of the usual 2.7 grams for steel cents. Hope that helps some, Vivien

[jfines69]

So what do you think about the weight of the coin then? The copper weight is 3.11g an the steal is 2.7g and mine IS 2.9g so what do you make of this? Is this normal? I wouldn't think it would be from what I'm learning but I just haven't learned enough yet. Thanks for your help. Ya no my problem is I find coins that look almost if not Identical to mine but I always get knocked back down as a no good or wrong kind of coin so that really throws me off as to what is right an what is not right. Reading it don't do much for me unless I understand what ever word there saying means. If I could just sit an ask about 20 different questions all at once I would have it made Anyway thank you so much for your time

Only 20 questions The extra weight is most likely from the replating or like Will said thick rolled stock... The lines could also be from a contaminated batch of steel similar to a poor mix of the copper/zinc metals that produces woodies on the pre 1982 Lincolns... Hope that helps some??? It can take a while so stick with it... No one knows every thing except for me tho

[totosue]

Yes, Thank You for the explanation to help me better understand, and sorry about the 20 questions but I find that I need to know more than one question about a coin to really understand what it all means. There is a lot about a coin an yes it does get very confusing especially when I find one that looks just like one on the internet. I try to read up on coins but until I actually try to work with a particular one I don't remember everything I read. So again Thank you all for your information, it all helps.

[VAB2013]

Thank you totosue for liking my answer! And don't be sorry about asking questions, that is how all of us learn and there are soooo many experts here to help!!

[GrumpyEd]

Just my thought which may or may not be correct....

If you look at a lot of steel cents they often have rust on the edge (outside edge what people might call rim). I think it's because they were plated before the blanks were punched from the strips. (maybe someone can verify if that is correct)
Because of that, they have plating on the edge but it's only what smeared onto it from the surfaces when it punched out of the strip.
So any striations from being punched would get rust in a pattern matching the striations. Then when re-plated the new plating is over the rust that has that striated pattern so they get exaggerated.

That's a possible explanation for the lines and the extra weight from the re-plating.