I've found a bunch of 1990 no mint mark penny's but one of them is much shinier and newer looking. Can you tell me if the penny on the bottom might be a no s mint
You just joined CoinTalk? What do you know about no S Cents? What Did you hear about them that makes them so special? Usually no Mint Mark on a Cent means they were minted at the Philadelphia Mint.
The OP thinks that bottom coin is the rare Proof "No S" MM Cent. That info is all over the internet, but folks look for the coin without the "S" mintmark, without knowing what a proof coin is, or looks like.
There are no fewer than seven videos on Youtube touting the 1990 no S penny. I'd bet that none of them explain the difference between proof and business strikes. Is it one of those videos that brought you here, Claarsonya27? Your coins are not proof strikes from the San Francisco mint, but they are business strikes from the Philadelphia mint.
Welcome to Cointalk You will no if you find a proof here is a pic of the one your looking for. IMO Dave
I don't know much obviously I'm new to looking for error coins. But I just know its a proof coin that should have had an s on it but it didn't get stamped. The one I found is much shinier then the others I have but probably not actually a proof coin.
It wasn't a video I watched but I just did a Google search on error coins. And I did end up looking more into it and realised that this penny I found didn't look like the proof coin
Note the photo Dave posted. A proof will have nicely squared rims, frosted devices and mirror like fields. You are posting normal business strikes that were never intended to have a mint mark as was said above. Sorry, but yours are not the ones.
