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<p>[QUOTE="COCollector, post: 2781355, member: 76108"]The 1944 Belgian 2-franc steel coin was also produced by the U.S. (in preparation for the Allied liberation of Belgium). Mintage was 25,000,000 according to Wikipedia.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/7znykO4.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>So I'm guessing the U.S. had a boatload of leftover 1943 steel planchets. And presumably we still needed copper for the war effort...</p><p><br /></p><p>So I'm not surprised that some steel cents were produced for 1944. Question is, how many? Maybe millions? And maybe most were destroyed?</p><p><br /></p><p>Or, maybe there's a long-forgotten hoard of 1944 steel cents hiding in a dusty corner of a U.S. Mint vault.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="COCollector, post: 2781355, member: 76108"]The 1944 Belgian 2-franc steel coin was also produced by the U.S. (in preparation for the Allied liberation of Belgium). Mintage was 25,000,000 according to Wikipedia. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/7znykO4.jpg[/IMG] So I'm guessing the U.S. had a boatload of leftover 1943 steel planchets. And presumably we still needed copper for the war effort... So I'm not surprised that some steel cents were produced for 1944. Question is, how many? Maybe millions? And maybe most were destroyed? Or, maybe there's a long-forgotten hoard of 1944 steel cents hiding in a dusty corner of a U.S. Mint vault.[/QUOTE]
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