misplaced mintmark on a 43-S Jefferson nickel?

[N-6471]

While photographing a group of 1943-S Jefferson nickels I noticed 1 with a mintmark under the U&S instead of the B&U. Is this a variety? 42SFSR4.jpg

[PNWMAKES]

Hmmm. first off nice looking 1943 S. since mint marks were hand punched on the die's by mint workers I know that they can be in slightly different locations, like I see on Lincoln cents. That's why I always try to match mint mark location first will trying to attribute RPM's. Now with being said I have not seen a mint mark that far out on a war nickle personally. So I will wait to see what the experts say. (Just my opinion)

[N-6471]

I've been collecting war nickels for a while now and this was kind of surprising when I saw it. There must be 10's of thousands of them but I've never noticed before. I wonder who the war nickel expert is.

[MintErrors]

No, it does not make it a variety. These things were added by hand in the 40s. The typically have a designated area that the mint mark could be placed. Some mint workers did a better centering job than others. For example, the mint mark on Lincoln cents is allowed any where on the field south of the date.

There is plenty of field area above the monticello, how much of that is deemed within mint tolerance is probably written down some where, but this coin above seems to have a mintmark in an acceptable area.

Just because this mint mark on the nickel is a little off does not make it a variety, it needs something else done to it with human intervention. Varieties are RPMs, doubled dies, over mint marks, overdates, repunched dates and maybe a few others. This is simply a mint mark slightly out of position.

That's my opinion and I am sticking with it.

[N-6471]

Thanks Gary, we meet again. I thought it might be nothing. I had a Lincoln cent that I thought was way off and Dr. Wiles had a similar explanation.

[Petespockets55]

That is slightly out of position but, IMHO, not enough to add extra value.

There are some nickles with out-of-the-ordinary mint mark locations that do create some collector interest and would be considered a variety.
See the Coin World article in the following link about a 1975 D (Referred to as a High D in some forum threads). https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-co...es-bowers.html

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And here is a link to PCGS about a graded example. https://www.pcgs.com/auctionprices/i...48873146161329

[N-6471]

It looks like the no's have it. I think the 1975 D is what sent me down that rabbit hole. It's always a good idea to ask around. Thanks!