Anyone know what they might have been saying?

While looking for Mr. Morgan's middle name, I ran across this article in Wiki;

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Dollar

I was not aware that there was a mint in Mifflin county, but a 1941-S Morgan dollar? Even if that is supposed to be a 1921-S, they go on to explain how these special coins of 1921 were struck in Denver.

Does anyone have so much as a guess at what they were trying to say?
BTW, does anyone know anything about this Mifflin county mint?

 

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I have absolutely no clue. Almost all Morgan dollar proofs came from the Philly mint, though branch mint proofs are know (CC and O).

I've never heard of Mifflin County making proofs, I've never heard of the 4 D/S Morgans, and I've definitely never heard of a 1941-S proof.

Maybe the 1941-S proof was supposed to be a 1921, referring to the Zerbe and Chapman proofs.

 

No telling who added that in the entry. I don't recall it being there last time I read it.

 

Mifflin County mint? 1941-S Morgans? Don't believe everything you read on Wikipedia...

 

Nope, But again another interesting tid bit!!

 

That's a typo. They're talking about the Zerbe 1921 proofs.

I know nothing of a Mifflin County mint. Mifflin County appears to be in Pennsylvania. Perhaps someone got their wires crossed.

 

I just looked at the page, and it said it was last updated today, and there is no reference to Mifflin County.

Maybe whoever updated it before realized their mistake and came back to fix it.

 

wiki wacky

 

Yep! They took out the reference to Mifflin county and changed 1941 to 1921. However, they still have the reference in there for the 4 coins struck in Denver.

 

Looks like they took any reference to Mifflen County out of the article .
rzage

 

Gosh rlm . always a step ahead of me . LOL
rzage

 

Sorry, but you gotta get your act in gear.

 

Mifflin county has got me miffed. There's a Mifflin county, PA with lots of history to it. I tried quickly reseaching it and came up with a Henry C. Hickok a former US Senator, 1800's, whose name is mentioned in a somewhat vague wordage with the US Mint. I got lost and ran around in circles trying to trace this clue to some fruition(?)
There have been US Mint Directors that came from Mifflin County, PA but nothing about a US Mint being there.
Next thought was the Franklin Mint but that didn't occur till the 1960's.
I still have no reference of Mifflin County having a US Mint or any function of it relating to mintage.????
But again I've only did a quick search. zeke

 

I am at least passingly familiar with Mifflin county. My grandfather came from there as well as my son-in-law's family - and, no, it is not the same family (that I know of anyway).

 

The problem here is that info should never have been released to the general public. Those coins were actually minted in AREA 51 and those dates are accurate. Mifflin County is one of those letters that are taken from a bunch of words. More Info From our Federal Limited Intelligence Nitwits.
Realizing this info was now available, Aliens took over Wikipedia and removed what shouldn't have been there.
The above shows you I don't have a lot to do right now.

 

I'm not aware of any special proof Morgans being struck at Denver. there definitely aren't any D over S Morgans. What I think they are actually referring to were the specially engraved 1921-D Morgan dollars. Supposedly the first 100 coins struck in Denver had a special engraving done on the obverse that "This was number X of the first 100 Morgan dollars to be struck at the Denver Mint."

It is not known if all 100 coins were engraved, I think there are only something like four of them known to exist today and I think the highest number engraved on one of the coins seen so far is either 12 or 19. I believe one of them was in the group of coins stolen from Julian Liedman. I know at least one of them turned up in a batch of silver being sold for scrap during the big melt in 1979.

 

I gather from the comments that there is or was no such thing as a Mifflin county mint. Correct?