I came across this tonight while going through all my change accumulated throughout today. On the obverse, seems the mint mark is somewhat lower than usual. On the reverse, some of the upper left features of the building is missing. Anything significant about this?
For clarification.. They were hand punched into each Obverse Die. Not onto each coin There are people who actually think each mint mark was done one at a time
I knew what you meant, no clarification needed for me. As I'm quite sure I'm not alone on that assessment either. The newbies are the ones we hear from ever so often that tend to indicate that's their belief.
It's something I just easily reasoned out. From what I've found on google, Denver minted 316,144,800 nickels that year. How long would it take for someone to hand punch the mint mark on that many nickels and in time for the release? Just attempting such a feat would literally drive someone insane. Wow, if someone could actually do that, they'd be a great candidate for "spooning" coins. "And when you're finished with this, here's a one inch brush, go repaint the entire Golden Gate Bridge with it."