It is the 5th highest number of all the pennies made in this mint. The Philadelphia mint produced 684,628,670 pennies in 1943. You can quickly distinguish them by the marks on the coin reverse. These three mints struck over 1,000,000,000 Lincoln steel pennies in 1943. The Denver mint produced the 1943 penny with a D mint mark.The San Francisco mint produced the 1943 penny with an S mint mark.The Philadelphia mint produced the 1943 penny that typically has no mint mark.In 1943, three mints produced this penny: As always, there are also two inscriptions, the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and E PLURIBUS UNUM.
You can see two stalks of wheat along the reverse’ rims, with the face value of the ONE CENT in the middle. A former US President Abraham Lincoln profile is on the obverse, with the inscription IN GOD WE TRUST located on the upper edge.Ībove Lincoln’s shoulder is the word LIBERTY, while in front of the profile are the year of minting and the mint mark. The 1943 Lincoln penny has the same look as other pennies in the series. For all these reasons, the US Mint decided to reuse copper for producing pennies in 1944. People often mistakenly replaced these two coins for similarity and lost nine cents per piece when paying something. Another disadvantage was the similarity with Dimes. After a while, the coins quickly lost a zinc surface layer and were prone to rust. Unfortunately, this change in the material wasn’t an excellent idea. That change made this penny look like a silver coin, setting it apart from all the pennies ever minted before.
Therefore, it replaced copper in pennies with zinc-coated steel. Since the US Mint was making pennies of this metal, it decided to contribute. The military industry was run out of copper necessary for making castings.
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