Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;justafarmer, post: 2984996, member: 3926&quot;]What a dynamic hobby – I am always learning something new. I wasn’t until recently I learned 1943 bronze cents were struck at all 3 branch mints. The same is true for the 1944 steel cent. I know my chances for winning the lottery is probably better than finding one of these coins. Then I got to thinking, perhaps the odds of finding a 1943 bronze cent struck on a steel planchet or a 1944 steel cent struck on a bronze might be somewhere in the realm of possible. Certainly these dies went on to produce a normal amount of coinage struck on a proper planchet.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have never seen any of the coins in person and probably never will. Means I must resort to studying images of known examples. Well here is what I learned today. The 1943-S Bronze cent was struck by two different obverse dies. The 1944-D steel cent was also.</p><p><br /></p><p>Following are some CAD overlays illustrating the date and mint mark position for the dies that struck the 1943 Bronze and 1944 steel cents.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]735097[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]735098[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]735099[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]735100[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]735101[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]735102[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]735103[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]735104[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]735105[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]735106[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in