1940s cent

I just thought I would ask for some feedback on this coin. Thanks in advance.

 

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My first thought is that it was struck with a worn die.

 

Die Deterioration doubling. Worthless doubling and the 0 took a hit during circulation.

 

That’s a tiny interior crack on the wheat stalk and crimping machine damage on 0. They’re not worth anything but that’s what they are.

Here’s what that 0 is...

 

One way to tell it's die deterioration or machine doubling rather than true doubled die is that the mint mark is affected. In those days, unless I'm mistaken, the mint marks were manually applied after the die was created, so any true doubling would not affect the mint mark.

There does appear to be a very minor die break in the wheat on the reverse, which is common.

 

Is it possible that the die break is pre-cud? I'd like to see the entire reverse of the coin.

 

Those are some GREAT examples Eddie . Thanks

 

Thanks all for your feedback.
Here is the reverse inspector

 

You bet friend. I was puzzled at these too when I’d first seen them.

 

The last to numbers also show some MD, and they got second by the MD on the MM.