Talk:1943 steel cent/Archive 1

Archive 1

Merge

Anyone like the idea of merging this into Wheat penny, seeing as how this is a wheat penny, and both articles are stubs? Joe I 23:54, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

I don't believe this page should be merged. Questions about this one-year, one-of-a-kind U.S. coin issue are easily a Top 5 FAQ for coin dealers & collectors. As long as this page is separate, it's easier to find, in search engines and otherwise.Galaxiana 08:46, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

i know of some one that has a 1943 penny but is made of a magnet, not steel or copper.. its magnatized.. what can i tell my friends about this penny.. and its value..the rumor is a 1 million$ is this true.. let me know.. thanks for the info.. carla

just a guess, if it is a steel penny, steel, more rightly iron, can be magnatized by heat. Don't really know how long it stays like that, but that could be it. Otherwise, it's not worth a penny. Joe I 21:38, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

It's pretty easy to magnetize iron. You can do this by rubbing a needle against a magnet, for example. The needle will become magnetized. You can do the same with a screwdriver, it's great for picking up dropped screws. What you have is an ordinary 1943 steel cent that probably was exposed to a magnet.--RLent 22:43, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Joe, I have never heard of this claim before that the San Francisco Mint dumped the reclaimed steel pennies into the Pacific Ocean. Do you recall where you got that information (if, in fact, you wrote this page)? I couldn't find it on the U.S. Mint web site, but of course their site isn't the most search-friendly site in the world, either.  ;) I think a claim like this needs substantiation. A quick google only brings reference derived from (or copied from) this page. Galaxiana 09:09, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

I've read it in at least one book, though I don't recall the book (it's probably been 10 years or more since I read it).--chris.lawson 14:49, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

The only coins dumped into the Pacific Ocean were the silver Peso coins of the Philippines. The coins were minted in San Francisco for the American Commonwealth of the Philippines, and were dumped into Manila Bay to deny their capture by Japanese forces. Steel cents were never collected and dumped into the ocean, otherwise they wouldn't be so common today.San Miguel98 14:53, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

American Girl Doll "Molly"

I removed the trivial reference to the American Girl Doll, seeing that it is nothing but irrelevant trivia. Jchthys (talk) 03:38, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Why steel?

I understand that they needed copper for the war effort, but steel was critical to the war too. Everything from ships to tanks to gun barrels needed steel, so it seems very odd that steel would be wasted on something as low-priority as a penny. What was the reasoning behind this? 75.76.213.106 (talk) 18:15, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Steel costs next to nothing and was plentiful compared to copper. Costly or more rare strategic metals needed to make specialized steels and stainless steels are molybdenum, nickel and chromium. The steel cent was a low-grade steel coated with a film of cheap zinc.

Line in Main Article This line has been beaten around quite a bit: Even U.S. gold coins at various times were 21.6 to 22 karat alloy, and originally contained slightly over 2% copper, to an eventual standard 10% copper. Basically the sentence as written seems to cover two separate bits of minutiae; it should be rewritten perhaps as two independent clauses. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.235.159.157 (talk) 01:58, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

The amount of gold they contained is irrelevant and distracting, since people wonder what the remainder was when the numbers don't add up (answer: silver). So I'll change at least that part. SBHarris 05:19, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

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--JeffGBot (talk) 16:25, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Understating Rarity

Under the '1943 Copper cent' heading, I've recently changed "'Just behind the' 1955 doubled-die cent" to "Far ahead of", and was reverted. The 1943 copper cent is many orders of magnitude more scarce than the 1955 doubled-die cent. I've gone ahead and re-reverted. I'm not a big Wiki editor, so maybe I'm just not following some sort of rule. -harris498 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Harris498 (talk • contribs) 18:33, 19 June 2016 (UTC)