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Message:: [QUOTE="bhp3rd, post: 535233, member: 16510"]No Now if the mint mark was touching the date it would be a displaced mm and a error the mint mark should not be touching other elements of the coin.JC No, anyplace under the date and to the right of the jacket on the bust, it don't matter much. Now if the mint-mark was on top of an element of the date or way over in the jacket or rim it would be a varieity but it would need to be fairly spectacular to be that different.Look, they were making thousands of dies for each year and mint-mark.  The Phiiiy Mint made all the dies without any mint-mark first during this time - then shipped the several thousand each to San Francisco or Denver once there a mint technician opened the boxes of dies and applied the mint-mark with a steel punch.  Sometimes it required several blows of the hammer resulting in those die varieties we so love RPM's.Remember this is all done in reverse - that finished working die is encuse, or a negative image of the coin - the punch itself is a positive so it can make a resulting negative impression for the "D" or "S" - I'm sure it took quite a bit of skill to do it well so many thousands of times and quality control was not what it is today.  That said, if the dude just got it in there it was okay - your coin is normal for the times.[/QUOTE]