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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Victor, post: 1806484, member: 5454&quot;]^^^^^^^</p><p>&nbsp;Ok you ask about seeing the error through magnification.&nbsp; Well some rpms I found ONLY with magnification; and yes they count.</p><p>My quasi-specialty is 1956-D rpm, so I am talking about 1956-D only.</p><p>You ask about seeing a faint S. That&#039;s a tricky one with a few schools of thought.</p><p>First, there is a theory [or rumor] that in late 1955 dies were prepared for San Francisco ahead of time for the 1956-S cent.&nbsp; At that time plans to close the San Francisco mint were not well known. Well the San Francisco mint closed and no 1956-S cents were made .&nbsp; So the theory says the S mintmarked dies were redone for the 1956-D cent [Denver made over one million 1956-D cents] .</p><p>Some experts say the dies were never made that much in advance for the following year and the theory is hogwash.</p><p>What was once [for years] thought of as a weak S under the strong D was later figured out to be only a die flaw, or a scratch in the die. They say it isn&#039;t an S but looks sort of like an S.&nbsp; So some experts totally discount the weak S under D as a die variety.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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