Die grease in mint mark?

moursund

I was browsing a few circ walkers at LCS yesterday. One marked 1917-s looks like not a full mint mark; problem with the die.
Grease in the mint mark?

jmlanzaf

How about "not an S"?

Why can't that just be a die gouge?

Could even be PMD.

Curved backwards for an S,methinks

moursund

@jmlanzaf said:
How about "not an S"?

Why can't that just be a die gouge?

Could even be PMD.

Curved backwards for an S,methinks

My first thought was maybe die chip/gouge, but it looked pretty close to correct location for mint mark.
By perhaps PMD, you mean if somebody scraped off part of the mintmark?

Thanks... Not my coin, not my problem (not my monkey, not my circus), but always learning.

am

jmlanzaf

@moursund said:

@jmlanzaf said:
How about "not an S"?

Why can't that just be a die gouge?

Could even be PMD.

Curved backwards for an S,methinks

My first thought was maybe die chip/gouge, but it looked pretty close to correct location for mint mark.
By perhaps PMD, you mean if somebody scraped off part of the mintmark?

Thanks... Not my coin, not my problem (not my monkey, not my circus), but always learning.

am

No,I was thinking impact damage.

moursund

@jmlanzaf said:

@moursund said:

@jmlanzaf said:
How about "not an S"?

Why can't that just be a die gouge?

Could even be PMD.

Curved backwards for an S,methinks

My first thought was maybe die chip/gouge, but it looked pretty close to correct location for mint mark.
By perhaps PMD, you mean if somebody scraped off part of the mintmark?

Thanks... Not my coin, not my problem (not my monkey, not my circus), but always learning.

am

No,I was thinking impact damage.

smashed part of the mintmark flush with surface? Does that happen (intentionally or otherwise)?

jmlanzaf

@moursund said:

@jmlanzaf said:

@moursund said:

@jmlanzaf said:
How about "not an S"?

Why can't that just be a die gouge?

Could even be PMD.

Curved backwards for an S,methinks

My first thought was maybe die chip/gouge, but it looked pretty close to correct location for mint mark.
By perhaps PMD, you mean if somebody scraped off part of the mintmark?

Thanks... Not my coin, not my problem (not my monkey, not my circus), but always learning.

am

No,I was thinking impact damage.

smashed part of the mintmark flush with surface? Does that happen (intentionally or otherwise)?

No, sharp object penetrating surface.

moursund

I think this is an outie, not an inny.

jmlanzaf

@moursund said:

I think this is an outie, not an inny.

You push in, the metal gets displaced out. Get a hammer and nail and have fun.

moursund

@jmlanzaf said:

@moursund said:

I think this is an outie, not an inny.

You push in, the metal gets displaced out. Get a hammer and nail and have fun.

Plausible, I suppose. Maybe on a rainy day I'll experiment on a junk bent silver quarter.

privatecoin

What does the reverse look like?

moursund

@privatecoin said:
What does the reverse look like?

no mint mark.

The coin is still in the LCS. I took a quick snap of the obverse, in order to see what the heck was up with the mint mark.
(camera is better than my eyes or a loupe, to my way of thinking)