NEWP Help(20 cent piece)

Betta285

I just recently purchased this 1875-s 20 cent piece and I noticed the mintmark looked diffrent so I looked at it better and thought it might be one of these following varieties;

K20-10 Double punch mint mark, resembles a $ sign.
BREEN 3875

K20-20 Doubled mint mark.
SPADONE 984a


K20-30 Mint mark is .

K20-31 Filled.
BREEN 3873

K20-32 Clear.
BREEN 3874



Any Help is apprectated..Thanks

jim

mojorizn

I wish 20 cent pieces were my thing. That's a very interesting mintmark variety. My take is that it looks more like a doubled min
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mojo

billboat

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astrorat

Although it is difficult to determine from your picture, we'll assume there is a doubling visible on the upper serif of the "S".

There are four varieties of the 75-S mintmarks. Both Spadone and Breen are incomplete (which is not surprising due to their age).

The four varieties are:

Clear S - (67%)
Dramatic S/S, nicknamed the $ mintmark - (18%)
Filled S/S - (7%)
Clear S/S (very minor repunched mintmark) - (9%)

Percentages represent approximate populations based on a sample of about 200 pieces.

Your coin is a Clear S/S (see assumption above). While a "scarce" variety, it does not command a premium. The only variety that does occasionally command a 10-20% premium is the so-called $ variety (although these can be cherry-picked quite easily).

Note: Based on Breen's catalog, your coin is a "Clear S" (3874) as Breen did not consider the minor repunched mintmark to be of note (or he just did not recognize it) so the "Clear S" and "Clear S/S" were lumped together.

Now you need to find the others!

Lane

shirohniichan

I would have seen it as a filled S variety and left it at that.

Gonfunko

It's an RPM. I have an identical coin to yours.