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Message:: [QUOTE="steve.e, post: 2630014, member: 20394"][USER=76768]@ACoinJob[/USER] back in the good old days. The Philly mint would make a coin die with all the details of the said coin. When that was done they would send said die to branch mint, such as the Denver or San Francisco mint. The Denver mint would then prepare the die by taking a steel rod with a tiny little D on the end. place it in the designated area of the die and smack the crap out of it. If they felt as though it was in the wrong place. Sometimes they would do their best to fix the problem. Sometimes, they would just move it a bit and smack it again. Oh crap that wasn't hard enough. SMACK! The outcome of this would be a D/D/D rpm.I hope this helps you understand that is why only the mint mark is affected. The dies were prepared without a mm. The branch mints would add there mark by hand to make them there own. Now it is different the mint marks are on the master hub. Example look at the1969s Lincoln cent doubled die 1 everything but the mint mark is doubled. Then look at 1995d Lincoln doubled die 1you will see the mint mark is also doubled.[/QUOTE]