Just came across this penny What year is it?

Have another look at post 17.

 

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In the photos you provide, the differences are clear.

On the coin in question, the anomaly somewhat resembling the center of a 3 is above the horizontal of the 4, pointed and aimed directly horizontal. On the steel cent, which is the die that would have been used if the other was a 43 copper, the center of the 3 is level with the horizontal of the 4, rounded and aimed at a SW angle.

The number 4 is a different style also from one coin to the next.

 

I am going to say its right on with the 1943 d-s And if It was struck through then the image could slide or be places slightly different .

 

Hmmm...I highly doubt it is a 3...I'm thinking more along the lines of a 7, and the odds are enormously against it being a 3. I'm not sure what you mean by "the images can slide", the design doesn't move when the coin is struck through, it is just weakly struck or not present at all.

 

Didn't the dies used in 1943 have a higher striking pressure? Wouldn't that mean that there would be a much smaller possibility for a struck through grease error? The dies had to have a higher striking pressure due to the hardness of the steel planchets, correct? Copper is a softer metal than steel, so a copper planchet in a striking chamber set for a steel planchet would have remarkably good details. Therefore, I highly doubt that a copper cent from '43 would have such a lack of detail anywhere. I cannot dismiss it entirely, but I would expect at least a light impression of the date on the coin, grease on the planchet or no.

 

Incompressible fluids are incompressible fluids, sorta by definition.

 

The style of 4 also looks quite different comparing your original image to the date of a 1943 cent. Your 4 has a long bottom crossbar that looks very similar to a 1947 cent, whereas the 4 of a 1943 cent is noticeably shorter (lengthwise) from what I have seen in the pictures you have posted as well as images on the internet.

http://www.tomscoinworld.com/pics/112710lc1947ms63-01.JPG

 

I have no Ideal What year it is, Maybe we will never know..But thanks doe all the help, I will Just throw In in a pile of other pennies, Unless someone wants it..

 

Looks like the mint mark may be the "Mintmark Style-004 (Trumpet Tail Serifs) used from 1941-1942 and again in 1945-1952" --- ref http://www.lincolncentresource.com/San_Fransisco_Mintmark_Styles.html. Now as far as the 1 or the 9 or the 4 style being used, I have no clue in the 1940s which year used which.

So based on this, I would simply eliminate the 1940, 1943, and 1944 coins as possibilities.

 

The image makes me think the coin was worked on in that area. It's possible someone removed the number. Lots of funny looking marks in that same area.