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It’s time to booty a afterpiece attending at all those pennies amphibian about in your pockets and change jars.
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A scattering of acutely admired one-cent bill from 1943 are still in circulation, according to a address from CoinTrackers, an online bread amount database, that’s been authoritative the circuit this week.
These bill are appropriate because they’re some of the few chestnut pennies produced in 1943. That year, pennies were declared to be minted in steel, to save chestnut for the war effort.
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However, a few chestnut pennies were minted that year by mistake.
“Copper plates may accept been activated or larboard alloyed amidst the added animate plates from 1942,” explains CoinTracker, “thus the error.”
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Today, these 1943 chestnut pennies are acutely rare, and can advertise for added than $85,000, according to the site.
While a few 18-carat 1943 chestnut pennies are circulating, there are additionally a lot of fakes going around. Con artists generally booty almost abandoned animate pennies from that year and add chestnut plating. Also, some scammers book bottomward the cardinal ‘8’ on a 1948 chestnut penny to accomplish it attending like a 1943 coin.
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There’s one accessible way to acquaint if a bread is chestnut plated, according to CoinTrackers. Chestnut isn’t magnetic, so if the penny sticks to a magnet, it’s apparently aloof chestnut argent steel. In any case, if you acquisition what looks like a 1943 chestnut penny, booty it to a bread able to accomplish abiding you accept the real deal.
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This video from A Village Bread & Stamp in Tampa, Florida, offers a accessible album on what separates 18-carat and affected 1943 chestnut pennies:
Bottom line? You’d be awfully advantageous to acquisition a absolute 1943 chestnut penny. But all the same, the abutting time you see a penny on the sidewalk, maybe it’s account demography a afterpiece look!
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