If the die was polished to remove a clash then it was already a finished working die (finished good so to speak) and placed in service producing...
I personally hold to a narrower scope in defining a variety. I hold to the rule that a variety must trace its origin to the die manufacturing...
Now for the 1937 Lincoln Cent. Is the RPM cross reference proving useful? If you see any errors in the x-ref feel free to post corrections in this...
Catch-up on the Lincoln Cent cross reference [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
1936 Lincoln Cent [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
1935 Lincoln Cent [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Thanks - I hope they are helpful to the CoinTalk community. Anything that doesn't look correct let me know. Some of the images I mapped from...
Bonus Lincoln Cent RPM Cross Reference [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Lincoln Cent 1934 [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Lincoln Cent 1933 [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Lincoln Cent 1931 [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
1930 Lincoln Cents [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
2nd Bonus - following is a set of Lincoln Cent Obverse Maps for 1919 through 1929 overlaid onto each other. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Bonus - following is a set of Lincoln Cent Obverse Maps for 1909 through 1919 overlaid onto each other. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Mint mark placement looks good for OBV-004. No need in verifying markers for OBV-001, OBV-002 or OBV-003. Concentrate only on those for OBV-004....
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