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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 2064169, member: 15309&quot;]<p style="text-align: left">I found this in the description of a Heritage auction listing:</p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: left"><b>Variety:</b> Fortin-104. Open Bud. One of only two Medium O die pairs for the 1841-O. A die crack between the ES in STATES and a clash mark near the M in DIME provide further identification. The 4 in the date is centered above a dentil.</p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: left"><b>Heritage Commentary:</b> Many Seated collectors currently pursue only those varieties listed in the <i>Guide Book.</i> In the future, though, mintmark size distinctions, such as the Small O and Medium O, may be widely collected with the scarcer mintmark sizes in demand.</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #0000ff">Open Bud Medium &quot;O&quot;</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://dyn2.heritagestatic.com/lf?set=path%5B1%2F1%2F4%2F4%2F4%2F11444216%5D%2Csizedata%5B840x2000%5D&amp;call=url%5Bfile%3Aproduct.chain%5D" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://coins.ha.com/itm/seated-dimes/dimes/1841-o-10c-ms62-pcgs-cac-fortin-104/a/1214-98243.s" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coins.ha.com/itm/seated-dimes/dimes/1841-o-10c-ms62-pcgs-cac-fortin-104/a/1214-98243.s" rel="nofollow">1841-O Fortin-104 Dime, MS62 Scarce Medium O Mintmark</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know much about this series, but from a cursory investigation of the topic, it seems that the driver of the price is not the size of the mintmark, rather the use of a transitional reverse die that had closed buds instead of open buds.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #0000ff">Closed Bud Large &quot;O&quot;</span></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://dyn2.heritagestatic.com/lf?set=path%5B1%2F1%2F2%2F1%2F7%2F11217067%5D%2Csizedata%5B840x2000%5D&amp;call=url%5Bfile%3Aproduct.chain%5D" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #0000ff">Open Bud small &quot;O&quot;</span></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://dyn3.heritagestatic.com/lf?set=path%5B1%2F1%2F4%2F4%2F4%2F11444217%5D%2Csizedata%5B840x2000%5D&amp;call=url%5Bfile%3Aproduct.chain%5D" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>It seems that Heritage is predicting that collectors will eventually start paying premiums for the rarity related to the size of the mintmark.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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