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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cubenewb, post: 1068953, member: 25644&quot;]Are you sure? Perhaps it&#039;s wishful thinking, but I can&#039;t help but think&nbsp; this &#039;S&#039; is distinctly smaller than the large &#039;S&#039; variety. According to&nbsp; the guide above, the large S top is either flush or slightly above the&nbsp; northeast point in the star. Here is a picture of what I believe is a&nbsp; large variety:</p><p><img src="http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o35/mielkeba/My%20Coins/1928SDDOStandingLibertyQuarterOb-2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>In comparison, my mintmark is definitely no where near being above the northeast prong of the star, and looks rather to be <i>below</i> it:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i319.photobucket.com/albums/mm480/theskewer/DSC00904.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m probably wrong though, perhaps it&#039;s just a small variation in the placement of the mintmark, weren&#039;t they placed &#039;by hand&#039; back then? Or is that only for other denominations? Either way I find myself having trouble distinguishing between large S and small S if this is not a small S; are there other things I can look for on the MM to distinguish them? When you say it&#039;s certainly not a small S, what gives you such certainty, and do you believe this to be a large S? Thank you coinman for contributing this information to my thread I really do appreciate it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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