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Well this is my first post with a picture. Recently purchased a UNC set 1940-1950 and found this in that set. Any idea on the value? Thanks. Also what grade?uploadfromtaptalk1348565382299.jpg
This one may not be an RPM, but suffer from die deterioration. This is very common for the 1943 cents. Could you maybe get a close-up of the date/mint mark area?
Bob Piazza
Former Lincoln Cent Attributer Coppercoins.com
A lot of '43s have been plated - to a degree that it is disturbing. Somewhere in the light cleaning process or re-plating, the die deterioration is enhanced making coins look like they have an RPM or are was from a doubled die.
No. No value for either the die deterioration, or being reprocessed. The deterioration is just wear on the dies. It will get progressively worse the more coins are struck with those dies.. Reprocessing a coin is actually damaging it. Any time you affect the original color or luster of a coin, you effectively remove any value it would have had if it remained natural.
Bob Piazza
Former Lincoln Cent Attributer Coppercoins.com
Correct- while attractive, reprocessed (replated) steel cents have little to no numismatic value. The die deterioration is very common, appearing on probably more than half of steel cents, as the steel planchets were much harder than copper, the dies wore out faster.
Your coin is a great learning tool if used as such, but has no great collectible value or interest.
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People have been unknowingly buying and collecting reprocessed cents for decades. My grandfather's collection had a few that he thought were uncirculated, but were unfortunately not. He would have gotten them back in the '70s or '80s.
Re-processed cents are either really glossy and slick, or they tend to be matte with very fine lines running across the surface. They were often cleaned prior to being re-plated. That cleaning seems to leave a pitted appearance or enhances die wear making the coin look like a DDO/RPM. The cleaning also has a tendency of getting rid of metal flow lines around the perimeter of the coin.
The glossy ones are almost comical and obvious. The matte ones are much better but tend to be dull or tone in odd ways. I don't have good pictures or I would post some.
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