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."
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be.---Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States of America, 1801-1809. Jefferson was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
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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.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be.---Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States of America, 1801-1809. Jefferson was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
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.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be.---Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States of America, 1801-1809. Jefferson was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
There you go.Good luck.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be.---Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States of America, 1801-1809. Jefferson was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
The misplaced 'D' is WEST of the "5" in the date.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be.---Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States of America, 1801-1809. Jefferson was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.