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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;desertgem, post: 977003, member: 15199&quot;]hi Irvin and welcome to the forum!! The cents of 1943 were very often replated with the outer zinc layer to make newer looking coins. Replating usually leaves bumps on the surfaces from the coin not being perfectly clean before they were processed. The photo are rather small, but the bottom one especially seems to show such a surface. Normal coins do collect grease and dirt in areas such as the date, and also machine doubling ( not in hubbing process) ,and any reprocessing treating could emphasize these in odd appearing devices ( the raised areas ) on the coin.&nbsp;&nbsp; The date looks like a machine doubled date reprocessed. Larger more resolution&nbsp; photos would be needed to determine. There is no similar Doubled die in any reference books I have, so I would go by this until we can see better.</p><p><br /></p><p>Jim[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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