1941-s Quarter Large Mint mark

So, I got bored today and decided to look through a roll of WW2 quarters that I had lying around. Anyway, according to the Fourth edition (yes, I know there's a fifth) of The Cherry Picker's Guide, the 1941-s has at least three mint mark varieties.

Anyway, the roll had eight 1941-s quarters, and the breakdown on them was:

Normal, small S - 1
Blob, large S (FS-25-1941S-503) - 4 w/ trumpet tail & 3 w/ trumpet tail + shelf
Open, large S (FS-25-1941S-501 : 013.5) - o
Other (uncatalogued) - 1 looks like the open, large version, but it has a deflated balloon s on top.




Anyone collect these able to explain why I only got one normal out of eight???

 

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Okay, so I decided to be less lazy and took pictures with my actual camera instead of using my camera phone and cheap microscope.

So, six of the coins look like this:

Large S



And the seventh looks like this:

Large Shelf

 

Yep. Looks like the FS-503 to me! Cool!

 

Thanks. What are your thoughts on the other image? So, as of now, I got six FS-503 in the roll, one small, and one whatever that other one is.

Thank you again for taking a look and getting back to me.

 

The other mintmark just looks like Machine Damage Doubling.

 

It looks that way, but the double is so far to the left.

 

Some Machine Damage Doubling can be quite impressive!

 

If you obtained the quarters from widely dispersed locales, then that would be unusual. But if they were from the same are ( county for instance), it would be more understandable as the bags carrying the varieties might have gone out in the same order. For instance, the greatest concentration of the 1945 Mercury dime, micro-S mint mark seems to be San Diego County. I have picked up a large number from local shows in San Diego county, probably many bags were shipped to the distribution bank or service at that time.

 

Hi Jim,

I decided to go through the half roll from the same source as the WW2 roll, and I found seven more large MM varities. Opposite ratio (6 of 501 & 1 of 503). My understanding is the coins were all from the same place: Waikiki foreign exchange kiosk.

Final tally:

Seven 501 - one with machine doubling
Seven 503
Two normal

I'll post pics later.

 

That is interesting. Maybe some more rolls will someday show up by a seller in Hawaii. That is the common way for found hoards to be formed.

 

What you have is a S/S. At this early time, all mint marks, we installed by hand. They were not added to the master die till a lot later.

 

It's difficult for me to accept S/S, since the under S is shelf-like and the over S doesn't look like a standard MM.

 

Here are some pictures from the second batch.

 

And here are a few more. I'll redo all the pictures sometime this weekend so that there are 14 large MM images and two small MM images.

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Is the FS-503 A valuable quarter, and valuable as in 10.00 or 1000 dollars? How rare is it

 

It's is only the mint mark that is affected. Right. Even with the shelf look, why is there not other factors shelving in the same are on the coin?

You have it right on the "Large S Mintmark", it's in the Cherrypickers' Guide on page 162. It's listed as "FS-25-1941S 503, CONECA PRM-002, The large "S" is a Triangular Serif "S".

 

None of those. It's just odd to get so many large MMs and so few small MMs.

 

i think as always it depends on the grade,but i believe in vg about 8 and ms 65 like 350 or so depending on which book you are using.

 

There are books that price the FS varieties in those grades? I didn't realize that. I thought the lowest priced grade was EF-40.

 

i found that info in the 2012 north american coins and prices.vg to ms 65 in that particular instance.krause publications