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    When Good "S" goes Bad....

    I am curious what you think of this S mintmark...I am disagreeing with one person's theory that the lower portion has a heavy bag mark hit. There is NO pushed metal, nor trauma to the area, or, the ball of the lower serif....
    There is a distinct micro S, and, a larger macro S...this year coin should NOT have a ball serif, but, it appears to be so, as it "lays" on top of the lower, flatter portion. 1900 Morgan Dollar. The backbone..the "skeleton" of a micro S is very clear at lower portion.....
    Is it possible something is inverted...or, a wrong punch from another coin the SF mint made in that time frame? It does not make any sense to me this one.
    In VAMworld, there is a "Wide over narrow" listing, which, has never been found...why they list something never found is odd in itself.
    last shot really shows the extremely thin bar of the micro-S. 2nd shot is inverted on purpose
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    Unless my eyes are deceiving me (which could be the case), I do see definite damage to the lower portion of the mint mark. The damage appears to be a shear which piled the extra metal on top of the lower serif of the S mint mark.

    If this is not the situation, then I would suggest sending it into either Wexler or Wiles for their opinion.

    BJ Neff
    Member of: ANA, CCC, CONECA, Fly-in-club, FUN, NLG & T.E.V.E.C.

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      Looks like damage to me, also.

      Mike Diamond
      Mike Diamond. Error coin writer and researcher.

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