1944S

atarian · October 27, 2003 3:38PM

question i know in the old days people manually stuck coins before machines of today but what is teh explaination for why one of my 1944S coins have the S right under tucked up right between teh 9 and the 4 . and on another coin same year and mint the S is alot lower than the other one. i dont htink there is a size difference but what is the deal?

jtwax · October 27, 2003 3:42PM

Because the Mint hand punched the mint mark on the master dies prior to 1997. So long as it was "close", it was acceptable.

coppercoins · October 28, 2003 12:39AM

Actually the mint hand punched the mintmark directly onto the individual working dies, not the master dies. That's why there are many different positions for mintmarks on the older coins.

Shamika · October 28, 2003 12:42AM

Coppercoin is right. You can find many different mint mark positions for the same date as the mint mark was hand stamped into the working dies.

As I recall, the 1909-S VDB has at least four different mint mark positions.

jtwax · October 28, 2003 10:14AM

You mean what I know coppercoins!

Thanks for the correction.

JT

1944S

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