because the penny that year wasn't made out of copper cause it was used for communication equipments during World War 2
A 1943 copper penny is known to be worth a lot of money,
When the coin was minted back in 1943, it was worth exactly one cent. It had no special additional value.
a 1943 D penny is worth 1.7 million dollars
A "silver penny" is a steel penny. They were minted in 1943, during World War II, because of the copper shortage. To a collector, it may be worth something, yes, but certainly no amount you could retire on.
I looked up a wheat penny chart and it said, a 1943 penny is worth about 15 cents, a 1943 penny with a d mint-mark is worth about 18 cents, and a 1943 penny with an s mint-mark is worth about 20 cents. I'm not sure how recent the chart is, because if the chart is old they could be worth a bit more. But I'm not sure
Yes, but they are very very rare and worth a lot of money.
it is not rare enough to have any value [will have value in about 3 years]
A 1943 steel penny with no mintmark can be worth $.35 - $1.50
Who knows. If all of a sudden, for some bizarre reason, every coin collector in the world wanted a 1943 Australian Penny, it could be worth $1,000 or more tomorrow.
1943 cents were made of zinc-coated steel. If you melt it, you'd get less than a penny's worth of metal, even if you could sell such a small quantity.
A 1943 steel penny is worth just that 1cent.
1943 12 sided Canadian penny