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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mountain Man, post: 24868264, member: 94733&quot;]Welcome to Coin Talk [USER=146540]@Pennywise4040[/USER]. Nice photos. The lighting is a bit harsh, but still good full sized images. Thank you for that.</p><p>In 1943, WW II was full bloom and the United States began hording copper for the war effect, and began minting cents with zinc that was plated in steel. Because this was a ONE YEAR oddity in minting U.S. cents, many cherished them. As such, third party companies began re-plating (reprocessing) the coins to make them look new. In doing so, the plating created added material that deposited on the edges of devices (letters, numbers, images) that make them appear doubled.</p><p><a href="https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins/form-of-raised-doubling-may-represent-plating.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins/form-of-raised-doubling-may-represent-plating.html" rel="nofollow">“plating disturbance doubling” </a></p><p><br /></p><p>I hope I wasn&#039;t boring anyone with known facts, but wanted to impart what knowledge on the coin for any new members.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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