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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Market Harmony, post: 765266, member: 20154&quot;]I recently purchased a collection of coins from a long time collector. Included in the collection was a pile of common date Morgan Dollars in circulated condition. One of them caught my eye when I was scanning them for VAMs and potential better dates. The pictures are of a 1891-O that I at first thought was a CC, then upon further inspection, has me convinced that it is an O mint mark.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I put this under a 10X and 20X loupe and saw the additional oval impressions that I&#039;m hoping can be seen in the picture. The original O mint mark has a smear on the lower loop, and the addtional marks can be seen to the left of the orginal. These are all depressed in the center, with raised ridges to form the O, and then lead right up to the field, with a impression around the point where the O raises up from the field. This makes me think that maybe this was actually done at the mint, and this is not post mint damage. The aging of these addtional marks is the same as the rest of the coin as best as I can descern. There are 3 additional marks: farest left is just under the long leaf coming from the bow, and the other 2 additional marks are side by side, to the left of the original mark. This looks to be the slanted O variety.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/9824/1991oa.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/3703/1991ob.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/675/1991oc.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/7255/1991od.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Please let me know your opinion on this. If you think it is an authentic mint error, who should I send it to to get this verified? In advance, thank you! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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