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The listing, World War 2 Liberation Coin has ended.

1944 zinc steel penny Belgian 2 franc.

This peculiar coin was minted on the same blanks as US steel pennies, but it was made by the US for use in Belgium during the war.

Here is the greatest anomaly in modern United States coinage history. During World War II, as the Americans advanced into Belgium, it was decided that the USA would create this first coin of "liberation". These two Francs coins of 1944 were minted in Philadelphia on the blanks of US zinc coated steel pennies of 1943 ( this metallic combination was used but once in our history, replacing the former copper pennies, as copper was desperately needed in the war effort ).

Questions & Comments

Nice listing. Your inclusion of the provenance sold me on it.

Mar 17th, 2012 at 8:32:10 AM PDT by

Thank you. I thought it was an interesting story I had not heard before. I knew the Germans minted coins for occupied nations and have entered some of those also.

Mar 17th, 2012 at 9:15:03 AM PDT by

World War 2 Liberation Coin is in the Collectibles | Coins category