1944-D Cent--Struck on a Zinc-Coated Steel Planchet--AU53 PCGS....

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1944-D Cent Struck on Steel Planchet
A Branch Mint Rarity, AU53

1944-D Cent--Struck on a Zinc-Coated Steel Planchet--AU53 PCGS. Branch mint 1944 steel cents are far more elusive than their Philadelphia counterparts. While the main Mint put leftover steel cent blanks to use striking emergency coinage for Belgium, which greatly lengthened the time in which a steel cent planchet could have come between 1944-dated cent dies, neither Denver nor San Francisco used steel cent blanks after 1943, creating a much narrower window in which 1944-dated steel cents might have been struck.
This delightful 1944-D steel cent circulated briefly before being saved, as shown by the minor wear over the devices. Pale blue tints from the zinc plating mingle with the pale steel-gray of the planchet underneath. Spots are visible along the obverse rim and also on the reverse, most noticeably to the right of the E in ONE and around the word STATES. An important and unusual selection for the collector of numismatic exotica.
From The Alfred V. Melson Collection, Part One.

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