What makes the steel cents counterfit or authentic?

Question

I have a few 1943 steel cents and looked them up on coin fact websites and they are worth a huge amount at some places. It also stated that you needed to be careful about counterfits. Does anyone know how to tell if there authentic or not?

Answer 1

According to the Official Red Book of United States Coins, even if your zinc-coated steel coin is counterfeit, it's no great loss.  The most expensive one for this year is described as a "Boldly Double Mint mark" and a grade of MS-65 is worth $250 while a grade of F-12 is only worth $12.

If you tell me more about what you have I'll look it up in this book for you.  This is the book coin dealers use to price their coins.  At any rate, I doubt that anyone would waste time counterfeiting such an inexpensive coin.

Answer 2

Bring them to a coin dealer.  If he wants to buy them from you for any figure he suggests, they're real.  If he is not interested, they're fake.

Answer 3

no clue how to tell a counterfet i cant even git a relationship with chicks right cause once im suckerd in its way to late