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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 6645346, member: 105098&quot;]I looked it up. It was NGC. 4 were in a submission from modern coin mart and a 5th came in separately. The grader noticed it according to them.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;There are two versions of these five-ounce issues: a Mint State version, with a reflective finish and no mintmark, and a Specimen version with a “vapor-blasted” matte finish and a “P” mintmark. The Mint State versions are sold through US Mint Authorized Purchasers, while the Specimen versions are sold directly to consumers by the US Mint.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>And there you have it I suppose. Likely it&#039;s a filled die error and not missing from the die as was already said although the image of it looks like it was never there in the first place suggesting they grabbed the wrong obverse die for a MS version, &quot;vapor blasted&quot; it and struck something until it was noticed or it went unnoticed... there doesn&#039;t seem to be any disruption in the finish where the P should be on the example shown on NGC news on their website and I&#039;d expect the mate finish to have been disrupted by a filled die.</p><p><br /></p><p>This story went way under the radar I suppose there&#039;s maybe more out there that people bought, and never noticed it yet.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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