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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 114413, member: 669&quot;]And just how do you believe a San Francisco cent would get into the planchet hoppers in Denver? </p><p><br /></p><p>There is a known explanation for&nbsp; the extremely rare situation where a coin actually has two different mint marks.&nbsp; An extra mark has been punched into the die before coins are struck from it.</p><p><br /></p><p>When you get a little older you&#039;ll learn about a concept in philosophy called &quot;Occam&#039;s Razor&quot;.&nbsp; It&#039;s the principal that when there are multiple possible explanations for an unusual event, the simplest is probably the correct one.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In this instance, there are two possible explanations: <ul> <li>The date has a tiny&nbsp; blob of extra metal, resulting from any one of several possible events during the striking of the coin - a quite common form of defect or&nbsp; &quot;error&quot;; or</li> <li>A coin struck in San Francisco was transported hundreds of miles to Denver; the coin presses were stopped so that this cent could be precisely oriented in a die allowing another impression to be made almost exactly on top of the original one, except for having the mintmark about 2mm out of place; and that die was apparently pulled from service immediately after this event, since other Denver coins with their mintmark superimposed on a digit of the date are not known to exist?</li> </ul><p>Let&#039;s get real here.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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