1945 Penny - No Dot? Filled Die Or ......

Hi Basil, thanks for your thoughts which I agree with to some extent.

I wonder though if this 'prevailing attitude' amongst coinies is the reason for "Coin collecting has been static for a long time"

I'm a relatively new enthusiast who has been disillusioned to the point of 'walking away' on half a dozen occasions due to the astounding negativity of highly respected identities within the coin community. I've only met one experienced person whom I wouldn't describe as jaded and at least non enthusiastic if not downright pessimistic and negative.

Just my humble perspective and no offence intended, darge.

G'day darge, I don't post here often, my first for a long time. Only just recently read about a variety where the 4 and 5 are further appart, and the coin you posted is one of those. I recently looked at 58 pennies dated 1945 that a dealer had, and the wider spaced 4 and 5 occured approx. 1 in 8. Not a huge sample by any means but I'm thinking the wider spaced numerals are the scarcer variety. It takes a while to train your eye, but appart from the wider spacing, the loop on the 5 is finer particularly towards the tail. The loop also has an appearance of slightly distorting to the right. Hope this helps.