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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collecting Nut, post: 3069075, member: 74863&quot;]This may well be a genuine piece with a “smear” mintmark. Techs at the Treasury Department’s Mint Laboratory called this effect “Ejection Doubling.” It’s caused when part of the struck coin is still in contact with the dies as they open and the feed fingers push the coin off the press bed. This can cause the Mint mark to be out of position. Given the wear on the coin, the faded mintmark is within reason. If the mintmark is from ejection doubling, it would wear more than normal. I see no signs of discoloration, cleaning or tooling. But then, we are all looking at photos and not the coin itself.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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