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1943 s steel penny value12/21/2023 ![]() Back then blank dies were polished down to a very shallow cone on the end to help the positive steel hub transform the negative steel die more effectively. Why is the base of the 2 missing and the upper right curve of the 2 weak? This is a function of the hubbing process. A portion of the 3 would be down there if the 3 were doubled, and there is nothing. If you are wondering why there is nothing else inside the bottom of the 3, look at the images of normal 19 dates and see that the 2 is rather short, the same height as the 4, while the 3 is much taller, the same height as the 9. There is extra metal below the center “tine” of the 3 that corresponds with the lower left curve of the 2, above the base of the 2 (which is not present). However, it does seem to match the angle of the upper left curve of the 2 more than that of the 3. Study the pictures of the overdate, and see that the blob of raised metal to the right of the top of the 3 cannot align with any part of a 3 that is doubled only north and south.Įxtra metal inside the top of the 3 corresponds with the upper left curve of the 2, though its similarity to the upper left curve of the 3 must be acknowledged. Creating image overlaysĪs seen in the attached overlay of a 1943 date and a 1942 date, created by die variety specialist James Wiles, owner of the Variety Vista website, the high arched curve of the upper right part of a 2 falls into the field to the right of the top of the 3. As my colleagues and I have confirmed, this extra metal does not line up with any part of the 3 if the entire 1943 date were doubled in a north-south direction, the same way that the 1 and the 9 and the 4 are doubled. As he pointed out, “the extra metal to the upper right side of the 3 matches a 2.” He provided an overlay to show how an underlying 2 could account for that extra metal. Fairly rare early die state coins will also show similar doubling on the base of the 4, but this feature apparently was either worn off or polished off of the die early in its die life.Įlliott gets the credit for first suggesting that the doubled die was actually an overdated die, ever since he asked the question back in July of 2020 in a private online forum, “Lincoln Cent Errors and Varieties Only,” on Facebook. There is extra metal below the sharp left angle of the 4 that corresponds in scale to the doubling on the 1 and the 9. There is similar doubling under the top curve of the 9 and along the right side the leg of the 9. Because of this swing, the coin shows only trivial doubling on the word LIBERTY close to the pivot point, but some fairly strong doubling almost due north and south at the base of the 1. The misalignment of the designs between the 1942-dated hub and the 1943-dated hub pivots around a spot on the left obverse rim. The “(019.5)” number is an obsolete reference number from earlier editions of the Guide, and is noted because it might be found on older TPG slabs. Stanton: variety FS-101 (019.5) among the 1943-S Lincoln cents. It is currently listed as such in the Cherrypickers’ Guide by Bill Fivaz and the late J.T. Though it is a known die variety, and has been for many years, it has only ever been recognized for its die doubling. In our unanimous opinion, the 1943/1942-S Lincoln cent is a true overdate.! I think he is right, and my fellow die variety specialists Bill Fivaz, John Wexler and James Wiles agree with me, as does noted Lincoln cent specialist and author David Lange. A new World War II overdate variety, a 1943/1942-S Lincoln cent, has been identified by variety experts, after being listed as a “regular” 1943 Lincoln, Doubled Die Obverse cent for years.Ībout a month ago, longtime collector James Elliott contacted me via the internet and said that another collector in the die variety collecting field, Pete Apple, had recommended that he contact me about a 1943-S Lincoln cent that he had with a known doubled die obverse that he thought was also a 1943/2-S overdate. ![]()
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