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1941-D Lincoln Cent "Struck Through Grease " ?

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 Posted 12/22/2025  09:41 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add uruman to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
it's been worth for me to go back and check my searching finds from decades ago , I had these coin labeled as Struck Through Grease but I decided to weight it and found that it weights 2.4 grs , so it may have been struck on a thin rolled planchet maybe ?
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 Posted 12/22/2025  10:22 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add uruman to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Dearborn , here's the picture with the 1941d on the center , it's thinner than the other two circulated wheat cents , with the same diameter .
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I wonder if you could have both a thin or tapered planchet and a Greaser? The stark contrast between the "LI" and the rest of LIBERTY sure looks like a grease issue.

In going through several thousand of the 1941 Philadelphia cents, I am seeing quite a few tapered planchets, but nothing as thin as your coin. Both the 1940 and 1941 cents from all three mints have a high number of woodies and laminations, as well.

I wonder where the three mints obtained their rolled bronze sheets in those years? Was it rolled in Philadelphia and shipped by rail or did all three mints roll/purchase their own stock?
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 Posted 12/22/2025  11:56 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Errers and Varietys to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Looks like a Rolled Thin Planchet to me. Nice find.
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I'm thinking rolled thin planchet as well.
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