US Steel Cents

[Morsecode]

Somebody dumped...all 40 of these rusty buckets were stuck to one counter magnet.

Anyone actually saving them in this condition? I normally chuck em if they're pitted.

[Morsecode]

19 more from the same machine as last week. Same ratty condition.

[Dano]

Somebody dumped...all 40 of these rusty buckets were stuck to one counter magnet.

Anyone actually saving them in this condition? I normally chuck em if they're pitted.

Morsecode,
Yeah I keep all of them. They are just cool to my son and I.

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

1943-S found in a batch of CWRs

[hobo finds]

1943 in a coinstar tray

[cwgii]

1 -100.00
11-4--17--13



odds == 1943 [s] x 2,

[Whinstone]

found one in $25 cwr batch

[hobo finds]

Somebody dumped...all 40 of these rusty buckets were stuck to one counter magnet.

Anyone actually saving them in this condition? I normally chuck em if they're pitted.

Spend them See what the people say when they get them.

[John Reich]

1943 in a cwr from my bank.

[68Camaro]

I save them even if they're crappy. There is an old story about a guy making a bet that his friend coudn't cut a penny with his wire cutters, then gave him a steel cent to win the bet. Figure they're at least good for that!

I haven't kept up with the handful I've found this year, but this week found a 43P, 43D, and 43S on the magnets. Must be a low-level Santa gift.

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

Found a 1943-D today

[hammerrob]

1943 on the TD Bank magnet today

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

I forgot to post in this thread my steel cent find from last week. In a $25 Brinks box I found four total (1 1943 and 3 1943-S). There was also a 2003 one centavo from Ecuador which is copper plated steel. I was surprises that so many steel coins made it past magnets and found their way into plastic rolls in the box.

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

I forgot to post in this thread my steel cent find from last week. In a $25 Brinks box I found four total (1 1943 and 3 1943-S). There was also a 2003 one centavo from Ecuador which is copper plated steel. I was surprises that so many steel coins made it past magnets and found their way into plastic rolls in the box.

[spacemanX]

one of my favorite tellers called and said they got some odd pennies.
went in and got 18 steelies
3 S
4 D
11 Phillies

[Recyclersteve]

On October 26th I found a 1943-S steel cent. It was the first steel cent I've found in the wild in well over 40 years. They made over a billion of these in 1943, so they're definitely not rare or even scarce in the true sense of the word. I bet if I made a few phone calls, I could easily track down 1,000's of them.

So why are they so much harder to find than War nickels, which at least have 35% silver and therefore some intrinsic value to them?

[68Camaro]

I pull them off the TD Bank magnets all the time - well, dozens per year, and more often during the spring school charity penny drives. Like you I don't see them in change very often. But they seem to be sitting in jars and drawers that get cleaned out every once in awhile.

[Morsecode]

20 fairly nice ones from the same machine as last November. They're not all that commonplace around here but for this one Arcade. Obviously, someone is cashing in a hoard.

[hammerrob]

1943 P on the TD Bank magnet today.

[Morsecode]

3

[Morsecode]

P & D, and a third rusted one I tossed out.

[spacemanX]

4 steels this week
3 p
1 S

[ktonva]

The trick is to find one with no rust.

[Morsecode]

The trick is to find one with no rust.

Exactly. And so many of them are re-plated jobs.

[hobo finds]

Crusty or Rusty I still save them. I would spend them before I would trash them...