Misplaced Mint mark
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The November issue of Coin World magazine has an interesting article by Q. David Bowers on page 40,"Misplaced Mint mark,Author offers $1K for anomaly."
The subject coin is 1975-D Jefferson 5-cent with a "D" that is placed directly east of the numeral 5 in the date. Bowers provides images of 1975-D mintmark in regular position to compare to the anamalous position.I must say the misplaced "D" is in a very curious position,butted up next to and east of the "5" in the date.
I decided to go through my penny and nickel piggy bank to try to find a 1975-D with misplaced mint mark.I didn't find one of these but did find a '38-D and '39-S.
Another coin I found while searching was a 1972-D Jefferson with the Mint mark that was placed "way too low."I tried to image this coin but was unsucessful.If you look at Bowers' close-up image of the regular '75-D and compare to my '72-D,you would not even see the "D" on my coin,it's that low.
According to Bowers,the '75-D misplaced mint mark is probably 400 times rarer than the regular one.
Maybe I will start a Jefferson Nickel collection.I've got to have an example of '75-D Misplaced mint mark if I do.
Correction:The mintmark on the subject coin is WEST,not East,of the "5."
The subject coin is 1975-D Jefferson 5-cent with a "D" that is placed directly east of the numeral 5 in the date. Bowers provides images of 1975-D mintmark in regular position to compare to the anamalous position.I must say the misplaced "D" is in a very curious position,butted up next to and east of the "5" in the date.
I decided to go through my penny and nickel piggy bank to try to find a 1975-D with misplaced mint mark.I didn't find one of these but did find a '38-D and '39-S.
Another coin I found while searching was a 1972-D Jefferson with the Mint mark that was placed "way too low."I tried to image this coin but was unsucessful.If you look at Bowers' close-up image of the regular '75-D and compare to my '72-D,you would not even see the "D" on my coin,it's that low.
According to Bowers,the '75-D misplaced mint mark is probably 400 times rarer than the regular one.
Maybe I will start a Jefferson Nickel collection.I've got to have an example of '75-D Misplaced mint mark if I do.
Correction:The mintmark on the subject coin is WEST,not East,of the "5."
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
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It's my coin,a 1972-D nickel with "way too low" mintmark that I do not have a photograph,hard as i tried to get one, for.
Oddly enough I did manage to get a decent image of one of the '75-D regular mintmark coins that I found in my piggy bank.Of course,it matches up exactly with Bowers' 1975-D regular mintmark coin that he used for the Coin World article image.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Steve
Pics would be cool
He is offering to donate $1,000 to a numismatic institution in the name of the first person to send him one of these coins.
At this time, I do not know if he has received one.
I think I have one of these coins. I noticed it in a batch of nickels and I think I remember putting it in a flip and then in a
box of cheap coins. Now I have to find it
Bowers is clear.The coin needs to be mint-state and it needs to be the first one he receives to qualify for the donation.I found a few mint-state 60's era nickels in my piggy bank but the '75-D's all showed circulation wear.
The '72-D i found with the "way too low" mintmark while searching the nickels intrigues me though.It is lustrous and if not uncirculated,very close to uncirculated.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
There you go.Good luck.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
The misplaced 'D' is WEST of the "5" in the date.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.