1990 Lincoln Penny That Says Sliberty

San Francisco mint mark in rim in front of Liberty, one of a kind maybe. Also looks like doubling above, and the letters ET below Lincoln

 

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Sometimes people try too hard to find something that just isn't there.

Chris

 

Normal coin, with a little damage and some stains.

 

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check it out

 

I see the S but you guy tell me if it's an optical illusion

 

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I see what looks like might be an "S", but I'm not sure if it is the same shape/size as a mintmark. Let me ask you this......Since this is a Philly Mint coin, how do you think an "S" got there? There are so many things that can happen to a circulated coin. I'm still not convinced.

Chris

 

What makes you think it was minted in Philly, Because it don,t have a mintmark? Maybe this was minted in San Francisco, and the mintmark ended up here.

 

Mint marks are a part of the die and the hub, they don't float around. Every coin (except Philly cents) minted will have it's mint mark in exactly the same place on the coin. If your cent actually has an "S" mint mark near liberty, millions of others would have it, too, leaving you with a common coin still having no value over 1 cent.

 

I'm done! Go sell your "rare one-of-a-kind" on SleazeBay for all I care.

Chris

 

Then it would be a proof coin, not a business strike.

 

the only thing I can say is to send it in to John Wexler here is the guide lines

 

Wow! That's amazing! It must be worth thousands! Good luck!!!

 

I have a similar coin like this, except there seems to be another "S" after the "S" in TRUST and before the "T", but it is centered right in the middle of the "ST"... I have no clue what it might be but I don't think that it is a double die or something along the lines of that...

 

Chris, give the poor guy a break. Right or wrong he is curious and is contributing to Coin Talk.
With your kind of remarks, you turn people off, including me.

 

Fine! Then I'll leave it to you to explain to him why a San Francisco mintmark couldn't possibly fall all the way from California to a Philadelphia Mint press or why it is not a SF-minted coin.

Chris

 

Something to think about. If you don't have anything constructive to say, say nothing.

Sorry about my spouting, it just seems to upset me when someone (anyone) makes inappropriate useless comments, which undoubtedly would upsets the OP.

 

To the OP:Your coin could not have come from the SF mint because there is no mintmark below the date (which indicates it came from philly.) In 1990, the mint began adding mintmarks to the master dies. Therefore, each working die would also have that mintmark, and therefore, the mintmark cannot be misplaced. What you are seeing is simply damage, and the coin is worth what it says on the back.

 

I probably would have been a bit more lenient, but I also received a PM from the OP telling me to look again after I had already posted twice, returned to the thread and then saw his comment immediately following my second post. Perhaps it would be more beneficial to get the whole story before jumping to conclusions.

Chris

 

Although I agree with Chris, on the piece's attribution, True Dat.