Hey everyone, I was just going through my coin books and noticed a 1953 s cent where the S is touching the bottom of the five in " 1953 " ....First time I saw that....And I pulled the cent out of the coin wrap,looked at it, and put the coin in the book, and I did not notice it ( Duhhh...) ....( Tough when you get old...Believe me!) Anyways, I am sure this is not the first one of that year....What do you guys think?
I think it was 1989 when the mintmark was added to the die rather than having the die struck with a punch and hammer at the mint. So there are some that are doubled like D/D or S/S or like yours where MM die hit a little high. Thus there are probably a large number of those.IMO, Jim
The Mint cranked out 182 million ‘53-S. At 1 million per die pair, that’s 182 pairs. No telling the average mintage per pair; some were used longer and others shorter. And we don’t know how many dies had the Mint Mark touch the 5. The real question is after 70 years: How many have survived? And that’s NOW. Fewer will make it going forward. We may never know. What I do know is it is interesting and not found frequently. Nice one. …imo…Spark
In the PDS system from the "Official Price Guide to Mint Errors" Seventh Edition, it called "II-C-16 Displaced Mintmark (touching another design element)"
Your absolutely right Collectingnut, and I am guessing it was a human error, but I just wanted to bring it to everyone's attention that it was higher than it should be. But then it probably wasn't necessary for me to mention that in a coin collecting club. ( ok I'll say it to myself, DUUUUUHHHH!!! )
