1939-P Wheat Cent - Strange Date, Possible Error?

Occam's razor, is most commonly used but Ockham's razor or Ocham's razor have all been viewed as correct, the man who it was named after, was Ockham, though. silviosi, I would have to agree with this theory, in this particular case though, even though it looks nice and natural (as natural as it could, given it's not normal), as it is. Time and wear, as Coinfrog stated, have taken away the evidence.

If this were not an error, there would be a million of these out there. Are are not. It is just a case of a moved digit. Moving alters the location and size of the devices. Not a die error. Just a damaged coin. We see a lot of these on the last digit. These were altered by a Gumball Machine on that area of the designs. They are similar to a parallel line, but not exactly parallel:

The devices on the die are incuse, so it is impossible to move these on the die. The dies are copied from a chain of command. Thus it would be impossible for this to be a die issue:

It would be like claiming that because your car has the wrong fender (wrong company) on it, that it is a factory error. When it is is obvious this could not happen. In the past there were times when there used to be individual devices punched into the dies. But that is a early 20th century thing. (1908 era) Things are not done that way since then.

CoopHome: Why can't the devices being rotated on the coin be a die issue on the new coins? chain of command

Thank you. Makesents, I was close, Hocums, Occams, sounds the same too me.

Just messing with you Cujohn, I misspell more than not. I thought your point was spot on though.