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    • Peckris 2
      1940 different exergue pennies

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      Freeman estimated they were about 1 in 20 - i.e. 5% - based on his enormous survey of circulating coins in the 60s. Good luck with getting a high grade - I bought one from Colin Cooke in the 90s, he told me then that top grades of it are rare.
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      Just to add a bit more: the first few years of the changeover to bronze saw a helluva lot of repunching of date digits and legend letters. Bronze is a harder metal than copper, and the coins were thinner in size, so dies got worn relatively quickly. As well as that, the Mint is reported to have experienced a lot of problems caused by the change of metal, which the huge number of varieties (major, minor, and micro) in  the first few years can attest to.  
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      1940 different exergue pennies

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      I just looked this up (I'm after a lustred example) and saw that it was 11% of the total mintage for that year. Google generated, so accuracy TBC!
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