Whats a MPM?

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• commoncents05 Posts: 10,097 ✭✭✭

  March 26, 2010 12:48AM

  Misplaced Mintmark?
  
  -Paul

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• Harry779 Posts: 902 ✭✭

  March 26, 2010 12:56AM

  looking at the picture of the coin,the mint mark looks like its in the normal place.
  
  1964 D MPM FS-502

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• CaptHenway Posts: 33,009 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 26, 2010 1:00AM

  
  
  << <i>looking at the picture of the coin,the mint mark looks like its in the normal place.
  
  1964 D MPM FS-502 >>
  
  
  
  Just as coins with misplaced dates in the denticles or the design have a normal date in the normal position as well, misplaced mint marks can appear in the torch as well as next to the torch.
  
  TD

  Numismatist. 54 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Author "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," due out late 2025.

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• Harry779 Posts: 902 ✭✭

  March 26, 2010 1:34AM

  Does anyone know how to identify a MPM FS-502 1964-D Roosevelt?

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• kranky Posts: 8,709 ✭✭✭

  March 26, 2010 2:15AM

  There's a nice closeup photo of one in an ANACS slab in this ebay auction.

  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.

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• Harry779 Posts: 902 ✭✭

  March 26, 2010 2:44AM

  thanks kranky....
  
  i must be blind as a bat...lol
  
  i see nothing unusual about that mint mark.

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• tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭

  March 26, 2010 4:28AM

  ...a trace of a secondary mintmark is evident protruding from the left side of the torch.
  

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• CaptHenway Posts: 33,009 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 26, 2010 4:55AM

  
  
  << <i>...a trace of a secondary mintmark is evident protruding from the left side of the torch.
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  The key word being: "trace."

  Numismatist. 54 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Author "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," due out late 2025.

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