was just checking for the usual suspects in my books earlier and i came across this 1955 jeffy, I was wondering if this is a D/S?
this is what i see, but I am not sure, thanks for your reply, so were you agreeing with a S/D or a D/D? and what do you think it's value would be? I pulled it out of circ a few weeks ago. I have found thru searching thru the forums here, that there are 11 known varieties of this, I have already ruled out that it is not a OMM-2,OMM-3,OMM-6 but what about a OMM-4 I have not seen a a 4 too compare it too.
Looks like a D/S to me. Hard to give a price range. I would guess based on just a circulated coin as long as its not beat to death, around 5-7 bucks.
My opinion is D/D. Just to wierd to think of a D/S anyway. In 55 not to many reasons for the Mint to overstamp a D over an S. I would suspect this is a RPM, Repuched Mint Mark.
I'm reasonably sure you have a D/S. I compared it to mine and they are sufficiently similar. I have to re-image mine since I did it in the early days of my camera work. I can do a better job now. Plus mine is raw (not authenticated.) I can't wait until I get my hands on my wife's new camera. Nikon D300 (12 Mega pixels!) My little Coolpix 995 (3 Mega pixels) does a nice job, BUT I might be able to show individual atoms with hers BTW, the 1954 S/D is much more obvious.
Actually there were very good reasons. They had dies on hand at Philly that had already had the S punched into them when the decision came down that they were closing down the San Francisco mint and they weren't going to be striking any nickels there that year. Rather than scrap the dies they punched D's into them and shipped them out to Denver.
I'm not going to comment on if this is a D/S.... But I will say that along with what Conder said---there is also times when a mint might break a die....back then dies weren't cheap so they might call to another mint and see if they had any extras. If that mint did they would ship their extra die to the mint needing the die and in turn that mint would then create an OMM when putting their mintmark on the new die. Speedy
