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mr1931Smr1931S Posts: 6,465 ✭✭✭✭✭
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.image

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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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No images of the misplaced mint mark?? Seems like something so radical would have been photographed.... Cheers, RickO
  • mr1931Smr1931S Posts: 6,465 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No,Ricko.The Bowers article has close-up photographs of two 1975-D nickels.One has regular placed mintmark.The other is the misplaced mintmark.

    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.

  • OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭
    So am I to understand that a missplaced D MM on a 75 is between the 5 and the rim?

    Steve

    Pics would be cool
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  • dcarrdcarr Posts: 9,367 ✭✭✭✭✭
    To clarify, Dave Bowers is not offering to purchase an example of said coin.
    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 image
  • mr1931Smr1931S Posts: 6,465 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The misplaced mint mark is between the "5" and Jefferson's hair ribbon.West of the "5," in other words.First person to send Bowers a mint-state example of one of these will get a $1000 donation in their name to one of three causes-ANA Young Numismatist program,ANA library fund or the Smithsonianan's Dick Doty initiative.

    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.

  • mr1931Smr1931S Posts: 6,465 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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.

    There you go.Good luck.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.

  • mr1931Smr1931S Posts: 6,465 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I misspoke about the location of the 'D.' It is actually west of the 5.Sorry for any confusion I may have caused about this.image

    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.

  • FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 5,956 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have one, but it's XF at best.....
    Retired Collector & Dealer in Major Mint Error Coins & Currency since the 1960's.Co-Author of Whitman's "100 Greatest U.S. Mint Error Coins", and the Error Coin Encyclopedia, Vols., III & IV. Retired Authenticator for Major Mint Errors for PCGS. A 50+ Year PNG Member.A full-time numismatist since 1972, retired in 2022.

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