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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Penny Lady®, post: 972880, member: 16948&quot;]Here&#039;s the description from Rick Snow&#039;s Attribution Guide: </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT"><i><b><font face="Arial"><font size="1">Rev. T3-S: </font></font></b></i></font><i><font face="Arial"><font size="1">An irregular die chip is visible on the upper portion of </font></font></i><font face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT"><i><font face="Arial"><font size="1">the N in ONE. Olive leaf and right shield point well away from the </font></font></i><i><font face="Arial"><font size="1">denticles. Die crack from the denticles just left of 12:00 to the shield </font></font></i><i><font face="Arial"><font size="1">continuing to the left wreath and snaking down through the wreath to</font></font></i></font></p><p style="text-align: left"><font face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT"><p style="text-align: left"><i><font face="Arial"><font size="1">the left most olive leaf and connecting to the denticles at 8:00.&nbsp; </font></font></i><i><font face="Arial"><font size="1">Attributed to: Tom Culhane</font></font></i></p> </p><p></font></p><p><font face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT"><br /></font></p><p style="text-align: left">And here&#039;s the story as it appeared in Coin World in 2008:</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #d19700"><font face="Georgia">Is Dot on 1875 Cent Reverse the Secret Mark?</font></span></font></span></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Arial"><i><span style="color: #666666"><font face="Georgia">by acenh (08/03/08).</font></span></i></font></span></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Arial">The hunt to identify a “secret mark” on the reverse of an 1875 Indian Head cent which has persisted for some thirty-six years may have finally been successful. This year a coin appraiser, assessing coins for an auction had his attention drawn to a particular 1875 Indian cent. The coin had a tiny raised dot on one of the letters in the denomination.</font></span></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Arial">Could the dot be the “secret mark” placed on the reverse die of the 1875 Indian Head Cent to catch an employee of the Philadelphia Mint suspected of pilfering coins from the press he was operating?</font></span></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Arial">A numismatic archivist had written an article in 1972 in “Numismatic Scrapbook” magazine alerting the world to the fact that such cents with a “secret mark” had been produced in 1875. This was authenticated by correspondence found in the National Archives. At this time it was noted that no such coins had ever been found, and he challenged, “Where are they?” Then this cent was uncovered this year.</font></span></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Arial">It could be that the die was removed from the Philadelphia Mint press after the employee had been caught, then kept as evidence. About 30,000 were coined from this die. Such a coin may be found today at the ratio of 1 to every 450 cents.</font></span></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Arial">Now that the collector knows what to look for, we may quickly learn how many survived.</font></span></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Arial">Resource: “Coin World, August 4, 2008.</font></span></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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