Coin and Paper Money Collecting/Lincoln Steel Pennies

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Expert: - 7/26/2007


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Hi.  My dad has found a couple of 1943 steel Lincoln pennies.    All of these are in poor condition, meaning rusted over and what not.  I have tried to find some information online, but no luck.  Two of these pennies are different than the others.   One has an S under the 1943, and the other a D under the 1943.  I was wondering if you could help me in finding the value if any on these two coins.  Here are the pictures:

These are the pictures of the "S" penny.
(front)
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/8621/photo0001dc1.jpg
(back)
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/6360/photo0002fs8.jpg

These are the pictures of the "D" penny.
(front)
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/8494/photo0003og7.jpg
(back)
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/1848/photo0004gl1.jpg

I am sorry for the poor quality of these pennies, I took them with my cell phone, since the camera would not zoom in far enough for you to actually see Lincoln without it becoming blurry.  If you need me to, I will try to capture better pictures.

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Hi Junaid,

They made over a billion of these steel cents in 1943, so they're not really rare.

The "D" means the coin was made at the Denver Mint -- an "S" means it's from the San Francisco Mint -- no letter means it's from the main mint in Philadelphia.

In the condition shown, they are worth about 5 cents apiece.

Dan

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