RPM on 1915-S Pan-Pac Commem
Snoodle
Posts: 80
I believe my Pan-Pac commemorative Half Dollar has a repunched Die. Found it while playing around with the QX3 Microscope. Kinda Cool! 
0
Comments
New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.
The Pan Pac gold dollar also has an RPM variety. It's curious that these master dies were made at Philadelphia without a mint mark because these coins were planned from the outset to be struck at the fairgrounds during the Pan Pac expo celebration. That required that the Philadelphia mint's fourteen-ton press be sent to San Fran, in order to have a machine with enough striking pressure to make the $50 gold pieces.
<< <i>It's curious that these master dies were made at Philadelphia without a mint mark because these coins were planned from the outset to be struck at the fairgrounds during the Pan Pac expo celebration >>
Not so odd considering that all dies were made a Philadelphia with no mint marks. I do see what you are getting at though. If you KNOW that all of the coins are going to be struck at a particular location, why not go ahead and put the mintmark into the reduction model. Or if not there then into the master die. (Possibly the reduction model was made before they knew where the coins would be struck?) Maybe they did put them in the master dies and struck coins from the master dies After all, how many dies were they going to need? If you weren't going to need more dies than could be raised from the master hub, it would make more sense to just use the master dies for coinage rather than going through the trouble of making working hubs and working dies.