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In 1943, copper to a hard hit due to the war and the governmentdecides to use steel in its production of pennies. Well thisonly lasted a year because they found that steel didn't workvery well and resorted back to using copper. Well during theproduction of both the 1943 copper penny and the 1944 steelpenny, some of the blanks used to strike the coins got mixed inwith the dates. The rare finds are the 1943 copper penny (notsteel) and the 1944 steel penny ( not copper).

A 1944 Steel Pennyhas been found!!! That's Right 1944 was the correct date. It wasspeculated that a 1944 Steel Penny could have existed, but therehave not been many found. Or it could be that people may not bewilling to part with them for their own reasons. So you say howcan this actually be, well it is quite simple really, just likewith the 1943 Steel Penny's that were made, there have beencopper cents recovered for that year as well. When theGovernment decided to produce these coins and then revert backto the old way, some of the planchets (coin blanks) were struckwith the new dies and sent through for circulation. In 1943 itis easy to assume that the coins being minted, the person incharge at the time could have passed a few copper blanks to testthe dies and never removed them. Hence the production of the1943 copper penny. Well the same is true with the new 1944 SteelPenny. When the Government resorted back to using copper fortheir coins, a few steel blanks made it through and were struckwith the new



1944 dies. Well the few coins that have been foundare very rare as well and have been fetching a hefty price aswell. The pictures below are actual images of both the 1944Steel Penny and the 1943 Copper Penny.

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