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PennySaved
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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 Posted - 04/06/2010 : 11:55:32
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This AM I was sorting pennies and found a 1943 Steel penny; I haven't found one of these for a couple of years. It was in a customer wrapped roll. It suprises me that someone wouldn't notice a steel penny when they are rolling coins.
Do you think steel pennies are harder to run across that Indian heads?
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SELLING COPPER PENNIES 1.4X FACE SHIPPED......“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principles of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale” Thomas Jefferson |
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dakota1955
1000+ Penny Miser Member
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Posted - 04/06/2010 : 12:20:29
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| I would say yes if you look at the total mintages of IH vs 43 but the steels were toss away and they didn't hold up well. |
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george454
Penny Pincher Member
242 Posts |
Posted - 04/06/2010 : 12:52:44
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| No I have found 16 steel in my sorting days and still not one of these mystical Indian Head coins in which you speak of. Most of mine don,t look steel though they are brown and crudy looking. |
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ZigMeister
Penny Pincher Member
USA
229 Posts |
Posted - 04/06/2010 : 13:02:14
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I've found 4 IHs the past 2 years but have yet to find a steel in the wild.
Nice find! |
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NoCents
Penny Collector Member
USA
340 Posts |
Posted - 04/06/2010 : 14:39:56
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Sorted like 3K in the last 3 weeks.
8 IH's, and 3 Steelies.
The only way I found the steels was because of the magnet on the coin counter. |
What's in it for the dude? |
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oldBPman
Penny Sorter Member
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Posted - 04/06/2010 : 14:51:42
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| I hand sorted about 900,000 last yr and found no indians, and 2 steel pennies both in bank wrapped rolls. |
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beauanderos
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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coppertone
Penny Sorter Member
Canada
63 Posts |
Posted - 04/06/2010 : 17:18:32
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| Live in Saskatchewan, Canada about 70 miles north of the Montana border. Two weeks ago, my wife trying to humour my copper affliction, stopped at a bank where we don't do business and asked if they had any extra rolls of pennies. They had 30 for her. Turns out the youngest penny in the rolls was 1976 so they were 100% copper. Present were almost 10% US pennies including 36 wheaties and yes, 1 1943 steel penny that is still quite shiny! |
Edited by - coppertone on 04/06/2010 17:19:42 |
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cesario
Penny Pincher Member
129 Posts |
Posted - 04/07/2010 : 03:03:53
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| Found a whole roll of them Steelies 7 years ago. |
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Bart
Penny Pincher Member
Canada
120 Posts |
Posted - 04/07/2010 : 22:19:47
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I got on of those steel penneys from my sons change last week end. He only takes out the loonies & twoonies & the odd quarter. Anything smaller he says just take it. He gets it in his change from the fast food places he visits with his friends. I left him $1.25 as he had 20 copper penneys, 1 steel US penny ,999 nickel nickel, a US nickel & dime, some comemorative Cdn dimes & quarters.
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Nice. Yes. Very nice. |
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Found my 1st 1943 Steel Penny in a long time
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