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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rld14, post: 482108, member: 16133&quot;]The 1928-S Standing Liberty Quarter has a Large &quot;S&quot; Mint Mark and a small &quot;s&quot; Mint Mark.&nbsp; I am attracted to the 1928-S and have been hoarding them.&nbsp; This came up in one of my silly posts a week or two ago, since I was using mostly 1928-S coins for my grading post tonight, why not throw in an easy way to show the board how to spot a Small S versus a Large S?</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, time to bore you!</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Large S:</b></p><p><br /></p><p>The Large &quot;S&quot; tends to be fully square, it also tends to be placed, at least on all the copies that I have, even or just a hair above the northeast point in the star that it is next to, roughly centered in the mint mark area.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a Large S coin, sorry, I stink at photographing coins.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://img211.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cimg0203we0.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://img211.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cimg0203we0.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/8251/cimg0203we0.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Small S:</b></p><p><br /></p><p>The Small &quot;s&quot; tends to be either centered or oriented a bit towards the bottom in the mint mark area.&nbsp; The upper left part of the &quot;s&quot; is rounded and lower than the serif on most all of them, I haven&#039;t obtained enough copies to be sure but there may be 2 small &quot;s&quot; punches used.&nbsp; It is usually taking up roughly 2/3 of the height of the mint mark area as opposed to the large &quot;S&quot; which takes up an easy 75-80%.&nbsp; It&#039;s also often seen, depending on the die, smack dab against the star to its&#039; left.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a picture of one, hope you guys can see what I mean.&nbsp; Note, this coin has a die break but it does not affect the mint mark.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://img267.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cimg0205cu3.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://img267.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cimg0205cu3.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/9052/cimg0205cu3.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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