199? P Dime - Apparent Low Pressure Strike

My76Strat,

The 1983-P&D are both known struck in pre-zinc planchets. Two were found by collectors buying my book, Strike It Rich With Pocket Change, within weeks of buying it.
My coauthor and I included the 1983 solid copper-alloy cent after Billy Crawford of SC found one by weighing every 1983 cent he found.

After including it, I decided that for the next edition we should add a note indicating that it was just as likely they be struck on 1983-D cents too.
As as a result both Mints are now known.

This the Jeff Young specimen of the 1983-D, the first reported for that Mint.


Here is the Janet Hett specimen:


Here is a look at my 1983-P Nickel struck in a pre-83 planchet: