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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 2371435, member: 15929&quot;]IMO, it is not the RPM but merely ghosting (Flat Field Doubling) caused by the fact that all proof coins are literally struck at least twice.</p><p><br /></p><p>I submitted one of these to James Wiles with the following response:\</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]484943[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Scratch that thought as I was looking at the FFD.</p><p><br /></p><p>You might have a winner.</p><p><br /></p><p>Better yet, forget everything I say on this particular subject since I had to go through 11 1968 Proof sets just to find a NORMAL Mint Mark. So, I really have no idea based upon my current inventory.</p><p><br /></p><p>Normal (The only 1 of 11)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]484953[/ATTACH]</p><p>What I typically have which, yes, does have MDD at the base of the mintmark but the mid-loop and upper loops do not appear normal.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]484954[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]484955[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]484956[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]484957[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>So as you can see, my views are somewhat tainted.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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