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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 3977222, member: 27832&quot;]It can&#039;t be an original mint mistake.</p><p><br /></p><p>What would have to happen for this to come out of a press? You&#039;d have to have a 1941 bronze cent fed into the stream of 1943 planchets. Before that 1941 cent entered the press, a 1943 cent would have to get stuck against the reverse die after it was struck. Then, <i>in the very next cycle</i>, you&#039;d have to get the1941 cent <i>and</i> a new 1943 planchet loaded into the press, so that the 1941 cent was struck between the blank planchet (against its obverse) and the 1943 cent (1941 reverse against 1943 obverse).</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, yeah, and that 1943 planchet would actually have to be a 1943 <i>blank</i>, without an upturned rim, because otherwise we&#039;d see the rim impressed on the bronze cent&#039;s obverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s three or four errors all happening simultaneously. Finding a 1943 cent struck on a bronze planchet (or a bronze cent) would be <i>easy</i> by comparison.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sledgehammers, on the other hand, are really, really common.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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