1943 Steel Wheat Penny w/ doubled date

[Clark39367]

Hello
my names Clark & I was a member for some time but due to my wife’s sickness and eventual death I let a lot of things go by the wayside but I am now getting involved again.
i am a 78 year old male and I have collected coins as a hobby for a number of years with no great finds of much value but still enjoyable!

I have a 1943 Steel Cent with doubled date and what appears to be some doubling in the motto “In God We Trust” especially at the “G” in God.

if I am not following the accepted guidelines please excuse me. I want to include an image but not sure if I should do it here.
thanks

[MintErrors]

Hello
my names Clark & I was a member for some time but due to my wife’s sickness and eventual death I let a lot of things go by the wayside but I am now getting involved again.
i am a 78 year old male and I have collected coins as a hobby for a number of years with no great finds of much value but still enjoyable!

I have a 1943 Steel Cent with doubled date and what appears to be some doubling in the motto “In God We Trust” especially at the “G” in God.

if I am not following the accepted guidelines please excuse me. I want to include an image but not sure if I should do it here.
thanks

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Many people introduce themselves and add coins to it, but it's best to do a new post in the die variety forum if you believe it's a doubled die. Another way to look at it is, could it have been double struck ? If there is some doubling on the reverse, it may have been. That would go under the mint errors forum. Either area is fine.

We need photos so we can help. Here is my cut and paste on how to take, crop and add photos. The hardest thing about this is keeping the photos below 2mb each. I am not sure how you take your photos, but I will give some tips on using the cell phone camera.

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IF you are using a phone:

Find a box, about 6x6 or 8x8.
Place the box on the table.
Place the coin on the table, close to the base of the box.
Place the phone on top of the box and turn on the camera app.
Carefully slide the phone toward the edge so the camera can see the coin.
Adjust the coin closer if need be.
You can zoom in, but do not make the photo blurry at all.
Make sure there is no glare on the coin, use a lamp vice flash from the phone.
With the phone on the top of the box, you can stabilize the phone with one hand.
Gently tap the shutter to take a photo.

If you have a photo editing app on the phone, if need be, crop most of the background out of the photo.
You should be able to draw a box around the coin.
From there use the cropping tool to remove any unnecessary background.
The cropping tool can look like a bent square.

Photos are best saved as JPG.
The photos on this website have to be less than 2mb each.
You should be able to upload 8 photos per post.
If more photos are needed, you can reply to your post and add more photos.

In the text area where you add a post, just to the top left , is a camera icon.
That will toggle on/off the upload buttons.
To upload photos, click on the UPLOAD ATTACHMENTS.

After you uploaded the photos, the list appears below the UPLOAD ATTACHMENTS button.
Click the area on your post where you'd like a photo to show, like below some text.
Then just below the UPLOAD ATTACHMENTS button choose a photo to place where you clicked.
Choose either LARGE or MEDIUM and the photo should appear in your post.
If you don't add it to the post, they should appear at the bottom of your post as attachments.

Happy hunting.

[Clark39367]

[Clark39367]

Sorry for stating that the 1943 Steel Cent is definitely a double die when I’m not actually sure and hoped that you or your members could enlighten me!
thanks

[MintErrors]

I too am just a member here, like you. I looked at your photos, and the date looks like it suffers from die deterioration, a form of damage from well used working dies.

. Prior to 1943, the US Mint struck a lot of copper cents. Now, in 1943 they were striking zinc cents plated with steel. If I remember the stories correctly, the planchet was bad for the working dies and the would crack at an alarming rate.

Working dies are all sharp and new at the start of minting coins. Over time, these dies can become worn, and with that, the working dies become loose and may exhibit odd characteristics, like slightly shaking, slipping or may even cause the metal flow to be not what it's supposed to do.

There are a lot of different worthless doubling categories but, it boils down to mechanical issues. To learn more you can visit https://doubleddie.com and look for the worthless doubling articles. John Wexler did a great job of comparing worthless doubling and showing actual examples of doubled dies side by side. That site is worth a visit.

I also visited http://varietyvista.com and went through the 1943 Lincoln cent DDO listings and nothing matched up. I did not go to conecaonline.info to see if they had a match there.

[Clark39367]

I certainly thank you for the time you took to study and explain it to me, that’s thoughtful !
Thank you for telling about those 2 sites and I will visit them!
thanks
clark