Why The 1930 Slot In The Dansco Penny Albums?

Dansco put it there just to taunt you

If they didn't put a space for every recognised circulation year/mint mark someone would be sure to complain.

Some people buy a replica as a space filler but I can't see any point in doing that.

Of course 1930 pennies were never officially issued to circulation. The mint did a trial run of 3000 coins to test new presses and they were all going to be melted down. At least half of them (maybe all of them; nobody seems real sure) slipped out with 1931 circulation issues. So, that could be a good argument to not include a 1930 slot!

If a position was allowed for every known variation then the albums would be rather large (and much more expensive) and, if a new variety is found then we would all have to throw away our albums and buy new ones.

Jeff

Jeff, that's just speculation about the release of the coins. As far as "officially released" goes the mints never specified dates for release and just used what was at hand. All through the Twenties and Thirties the mints were using (even hubbing) dies that were a year (or more) out of date, using English and Indian obverses without thought and conducting die trials (with the die trial coins put into circulation).
The Mint normally didn't melt down struck coins from die trials.
As far as spaces in albums go the penny series is missing the various master hub die combinations, so they really need 2 slots for 1930 (mark one "rare" and the other "extremely rare" just to really taunt Trout).