No, it's okay. The "D" on the 1932-D Quarter is in higher relief than normal. It often is a dirt catcher and sometimes kind of blobby.
I took the leap and purchased it on my own skill/ knowledge. Just wanted some of your guy's opinions to ease my mind I suppose
When a mint mark is punched into a die, it pushes the metal displaced by the punch aside, resulting in a slightly raised field on the die around the mint mark. If the punch is stronger, then more metal is displaced. If this isn't polished down later before the die is used, the resulting coins will have a slight trough around the mint mark. 32-D quarters are notorious for this appearance. This raised bit around the mint mark, even if slight, also explains why machine doubling can show up on the mint mark without showing up elsewhere. The first contact between die and struck coin will be where the high point on the die hits the edge of a raised part of the coin.
Yes it looks off, and it should. That is how the 1932 And S quarters looked, high mintmarks that are sitting in a hole. Makes them look like added mintmarks.
