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That's weird...

 

From your photo the S looks like it's raised. Is it raised or incuse? I'm just having a difficult time accepting that it's a genuine S mint mark. I'd like to see what the experts say about this.

 

I hope you don't mind but I cropped your photo so people could have a better look at this.

 

And now for a better look at the S. The focus is not the best but you can definitely tell it is an S

You only showed a photo of the obverse of this coin. Can we see a photo of the reverse, or could you tell us what MM is on the reverse? I believe it is located right below the eagles' tail on the reverse.

 

This is the reverse of the 1925

 

My concern is that why does it look dark? As dark as all the other issues on the Obverse? Pareidolia?

 

It looks to me like there is no MM. I was incorrect. It should be just above the tip of the tail.

No MM means minted in Philly. This is most likely PMD. Now I will try to explain why.

Several unlikely things had to occur at the Philly mint for this to happen. First off they were still using a hand punch to add the MM to the dies at the mint during this time. This meant someone working in the Philly mint in 1925 had to have a San Fransisco MM punch in their pocket at work one day. They then proceeded to punch an obverse of one of the dies near the forehead. This would cause the MM to appear on the rest of the coins that that obverse die made before someone noticed.

Since there are quite a few collectors out there collecting Peace Dollars I think this would be a well known "error" by now if this had actually happened.

 

I’m guessing glued on

 

the "IN GOD WE" looks like the fakes coming from China.
Although I haven't looked at the fakes recently for Peace Dollars I just recall seeing the IN being weirdly elongated/stretched along with the other words being inconsistent. Normally you could just check the websites but those have been cleansed lately.

Didn't we have another peace dollar or something with an S like that a while ago ??

 

Post mint Damage. I'm in agreement with @Heavymetal that it looks like it's glued on.

 

It's not a fake, it's just a mystery.. ever thought that this coin hasn't been recorded because it was in my uncles possession for very many years and was his father's before he inherited it. So ...not a fake coin. . Sorry... but let's not give up!

PS.. Not glued on either

 

I'm giving you another angle..

 

Maybe the person working at the San Fransisco mint that day was tired or distracted and punched the s in the wrong place.. I'm mean didnt they punch every single coin, maybe the coin was flipped. It's kind of near the spot it would have been punched on the reverse if it was flipped

 

Calling on @Fred Weinberg; @mikediamond; @furryfrog02; @JCro57; @desertgem; @Michael K; and other error coin experts.
Mint marks were punched onto the die, not the coin. If it was punched on the die I have to wonder why no other Peace dollars like this were never found before this.

 

Actually they punched each die obverse or reverse depending on where MM was located on that particular series. Then this die would be used to make thousands of coins before being retired. Anything that is raised on the coin was incuse on the die that made it.

 

Giving this coin a soak in acetone will do it no harm, and could reveal if the letter were some sort of a glue-on.

 

Looks glued on from here, note circular area around S MM

 

It doesn't look close to being a dropped letter,
and although I can't tell exactly what it is from
the photos, it's not an error on the die, or anything
from the Mint when it was struck, imo.

 

@Kentucky,
Really, acetone? Reason I asked is because I purchased a pretty nice Morgan 3-4 months back, and the idiot that mailed it to me, taped the damn coin to some cardboard. Well living in FL, and it was the height of full blown Summer... and probably well over 100+ degrees in the mailbox, the tape literally "melted onto the coin". I was going to return it, but I never got around to doing so.
I soaked it in warm water a few times with a single drop of dawn but, the coin still looks like crap...I heard about acetone before & thought for sure it would ruin the coin as, cleaned...? Prior to the tape ordeal, it should have graded out as at least MS63 or possibly 64... At this point the coin is just ruined. Any thoughts would be great. TY