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1943 Lincoln Cent -- Overstruck on a Cuba 1 Centavo -- MS62 PCGS....
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1943 Cent Struck Over a Cuba 1 Centavo, MS62
Possibly Unique
1943 Lincoln Cent -- Overstruck on a Cuba 1 Centavo -- MS62
PCGS. We are pleased to offer for sale a coin that we believe
unique, a 1943 cent struck over a Cuban 1 centavo coin. The United
States mint has produced coins for foreign governments at various
times during its history, so the production of 1 centavo coins for
Cuba in 1943 is certainly not a unique or noteworthy event in and
of itself. The hectic wartime production schedule of the
Philadelphia mint, and the corresponding erosion of its quality
control, however, resulted in planchets being fed into the wrong
coinage press. As clients of our many auctions know, the
introduction of copper planchets from the 1942 production run
created the ever-popular 1943 copper cents. In the case of the
present coin, it was an already struck Cuban 1 Centavo coin that
somehow found its way into a Lincoln cent press.This piece is quite dramatic in appearance with the Cuban star centered under the effigy of Lincoln on the obverse. The peripheral lettering and (1943) date are all prominently visible. The real mystery continues on the reverse. The cent was struck with a "medallic turn" of the dies -- 180 degrees from the standard "coin turn" as is used on all American coins. Few (if any) 1943 cents are known with "medallic" die alignment, and what are the odds of this occurring when the coin was being struck over a previously struck coin from another country?
The 1 Centavo coin is struck on a brass planchet and the color has muted somewhat over the years. A small area of bubbly die rust is noted in the right obverse field above the cent date. An exceedingly rare, possibly unique, coin for the error specialist.
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