1944 Steel Wheat Penny Value Chart

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1944 steel wheat penny value chart.

Unlike lincoln cents made from 1909 to 1942 which are 95 percent copper and 5 percent tin and zinc lincoln cents from 1944 1945 and 1946 were made with a. 77234 to 110334 00 v. 1944 lincoln wheat cents were made with metal recycled from ammunition shells. Lincoln wheat penny value chart.

No mint mark face value. Buy price is what you can expect to pay to a dealer when you purchase the coin and. John jinkle hymen on march 18 2018. If they measure in at 3 11 grams each more or less they re of the ordinary copper.

1944 d lincoln wheat cent steel cent. The opposite case to the 1943 bronze coinage is the zinc plated steel coinage the 1944 wheat penny. If you are attempting to price the 1944 lincoln penny there are a few different things you must take in to consideration. 1944 steel cents in 1944 were again made out of copper bronze some old steel blanks got minted in 1944 by mistake 1944 d d over s 1955.

With 1944 steel cents it s easy for an unscrupulous person to simply tinker with the last digit of the date on a typical 1943 steel cent even scraping away the 3 and implanting a zinc coated 4 removed from a 1944 copper cent. What a1957 d wheat penny with no s in front of the states on the back. First because there were up to 3 different types of lincoln pennies produced every year the exact type of coin plays into its value. If your 1944 penny sticks to a magnet it s a steel cent and is rare.

In december 1943 it was agreed that these coins would be re minted in bronze but some coin blanks were leaked with the new wedges and very few units were produced in the previous year s. Coin value prices price chart coin photos mintage figures coin melt value metal composition mint mark location statistics facts. I have a steel wheat penny. David miiller on march 27 2018.

I have some wheat pennies leave pennies for sale from 1929 to 1958 give me a deal on them. Pricing the 1944 lincoln penny. 1944 marked the return of copper to the lincoln wheat penny coins though the denomination wasn t struck with exactly the same composition as in 1942. 1944 steel wheat penny 7 500 200 000.

Steel wheat penny year. 1944 steel wheat penny. It s really easy to tell if you have a 1944 steel penny or 1944 copper cent. If your 1944 penny does not stick to a magnet it s made from copper and is common.

Another test you can conduct on your 1944 pennies is to weigh them. Vickie on march 23 2018.