Nickel with two mintmarks?

I have no idea....what are some of the things?

 

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I just keep asking myself if the non war nickels have a certain size mintmark that's punched into the Reverse die... Then how and why would they make such tiny mintmark to punch in that little corner? It's silly. That's why the majority of answers are that it's not a mintmark. I do like to keep an open mind that anything is conceivable but I think that from the 1940's until now more of these would of been found or known about, if it were ligit.

 

Could be a dropped letter, could be a mint employee having a laugh . Could be a lot of things...one thing for sure is that is an "s"

 

No other letter on the coin that small to be the source of a dropped letter.

Where would he get an S punch that small? None in use at the mint.

Please suggest some more.

 

Well professor what was it "Never" or" except" or maybe be "one possible exception" Three choices what one is the answer?

 

Please update all of us on the results.. I would love to know!

 

You have to put your CoinTalk Tinfoil Hat Deluxe Edition © in order to understand the other possibilities.

 

I'm sure you would however ,if I had been open for discussion here I would of posted it for all to see . But it was a private discussion between bryantallard and I.
Thus no one else's business .

 

Boooo

 

I feel like a dummy. I've been looking at this thread for three days and have yet to see anything that looks like an S.

 

this thread is even funnier now that its gone 3 pages hahaha

 

There is an s don't know what it's from but it is there if you look at the last pic on post #3 with the black arrow pointing at it you can see it

 

I looked at all of them, multiple times. I stared at the one with the arrow for 10 mins or so. All I see at the arrow is something that looks like a backwards J, where the lighter part meets the darker part. I see nothing raised.

Edit: I see it now. Heck, I was looking for an S that was slightly smaller, not an S that was the size of the head of a pin. I think that was around the same period in history when the mint let the Smurfs strike their half dimes. Maybe that's the answer!

 

I digitally zoomed in on the area that is in question and put a red circle around the "S"

 

That didn't help now it really just looks like crud. I could see it in other pics but I think its just some kind of crud that just looks like an s on this pic you cant even tell its there.

 

Send it to Paddy

 

Oh, look

There is a UFO!

 

Well since all the dies were made at Philadelphia they would have to be shipped from Philadelphia to the destination mint. If the dies were defective, or if Philadelphia had neglected to apply the mintmark, or in some cases dies were shipped BACK to Philadelphia for destruction. (Sometimes they were destroyed on site.) They were never shipped directly from one branch mint to another. The Exception were the CC Morgan Dollar Reverse dies that were shipped from Carson City back to Philadelphia for destruction which were instead reworked and shipped by Philadelphia to New Orleans. The only case I know of where dies from one branch mint were used at another one. But even those were not shipped directly from one branch mint to the other. (The other cases of overmintmarks were made at Philadelphia and shipped directly to the final mint. They were never at the undermintmark mint.)

 

Ouch !!!

 

That ok Alan he can run but can't hide.... I'm going to get cha Frank.
Well let me rephrase that ....he can't run , maybe a brisk walk but no running .
But I'm still gone to get him.