1944 s penny

What's this about? The crack coming from the E in one to the m in unum

 

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It's a Lamination. It's common on Wheat Cents.

http://www.error-ref.com/lamination-cracks/

It has nothing to do with the Die but with the Planchet.

 

Alright sweet at least I found my first one haha never found one. How about this. Is this an rpm? Looks like a faint D below the D kinda coming out of the bottom and connected back to the round part of the D

 

Yeah, it's a common error on those old shell case wheats, but it's still a keeper in my book. Can't tell much on the '58 d, try taking a close up straight on.

 

You would have to get a better close up of the MM. It looks like die wear.
or, pmd.

 

The composition of .950 copper and.050 zinc, "Cartridge case cents" only lasted for three years 1944-1946. The mint then resumed the composition of .950 copper and.050 tin and zinc until 1962.

 

So that's why that happened? And why did they change it to zinc? Any particular reason why?

 

It cost too much to make them with copper.

 

The surplus metals from the War Effort where recycled back into the everyday uses.
There was plenty of Copper but it was molded into bullet with cartridges. These where used to mint Copper [bronze] cents again. The US Mint was ready to make "Steel" cents for another year. The general public complained that the steel cents looked to much like the dime, and did not like them. The remaining blank Steel Cent Planchets where given/sold to Belgium to mint a 2 Franc coin. With a mintage of 25 million.

 

Now that is some interesting information. Thanks for that bit. Now I gotta get a frank from 1944 lol

 

I did not mean to sidetrack your post. I would like to see a close-up of the 58-D mintmark.

 

It's alright, it still regards history on what I asked for. And I keep looking at that 1958 d and I determined it's just a scratch cause you can only see it in certain angles. If anything it's a very small die crack. But I doubt that too. But if you look between the 9 and 5 you will see more weirdness that looks like scratches Or whatever

 

Interesting.
Give it a photo.

 

It

Looks raised from where I sit.

 

https://www.terapeak.com/worth/1958...ors-die-chip-crack-clash-bu-red/311506323346/ Found something similar. Looks like my crack might go through 9 and 5

 

I want to say it's in the die, Though it has PMD written all over it.

 

Cool find. It's not a clash, But a cool variety.

 

Lol you would need to look very hard for this one haha. Thanks for looking

 

I put away a lot of my first collection. About 350$ mostly Cents. One day I will re open the rolls.