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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 3567343, member: 27832"]The mint mark (on the reverse, at the bottom left of the fasces) looks like a D, although the photos aren't quite clear enough to be sure.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1942/1 Philadelphia (no-mint-mark) overdate is very easy to see. The 1942/1-D is a lot more subtle. If you can get a close-up, in-focus image of the coin, we might be able to tell whether you have one -- or you can look up 1942/1-D on Google and find the diagnostics yourself.</p><p><br /></p><p>Good luck! I've looked at several hundred 1942-D dimes and haven't yet found my first overdate, but they <i>are</i> still out there to be cherry-picked...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 3567343, member: 27832"]The mint mark (on the reverse, at the bottom left of the fasces) looks like a D, although the photos aren't quite clear enough to be sure. The 1942/1 Philadelphia (no-mint-mark) overdate is very easy to see. The 1942/1-D is a lot more subtle. If you can get a close-up, in-focus image of the coin, we might be able to tell whether you have one -- or you can look up 1942/1-D on Google and find the diagnostics yourself. Good luck! I've looked at several hundred 1942-D dimes and haven't yet found my first overdate, but they [I]are[/I] still out there to be cherry-picked...[/QUOTE]
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