Hello everyone! I found what I thought to be a 1917 Lincoln Wheat. Once I put it under the microscope, it seems to have a misplaced "S" mint mark located under "Liberty" instead of the year. Has anyone seen this before on this particular year or on pennies in general? Just wondering if it is legitimate.
Mint marks were hand punched in those days, but the technician would have had to have been pretty drunk to have missed by that much. The position of the mint marks on Lincoln Cents can vary under the date, but making it to the opposite field is not really possible.