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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kevin Mader, post: 7453774, member: 106826&quot;]Split serifs are produced when the die maker is putting the mint mark to the die and repositions the punch to create doubling (one mintmark over the other, pre-1990 for the most part).&nbsp; Sometimes this results in displacement of material that produces a split on one or both of the serifs (on letters that have them, such as the D for Denver).&nbsp; Different fonts used in different mintmark designs determines if there will be a serif or not.&nbsp; In the mintmark above, you have an upper and lower serif, but no splitting (double image where distinct serifs can be seen adjacent to each other). Not possible to produce it via the repositioned punch either since the mintmark is part of the design now. When the font does not have serifs, the separation in the overlap is generally referred to as notching.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve seen it presented that for RPMs, the term &#039;split serif&#039; can be used to describe the overlapping gaps.&nbsp; For Doubled Dies, the term to use is &#039;notching&#039;.&nbsp; Since the term is more associated with the anatomy of a character and not a method for producing the split, doubled image relative to the type/font of a character, I&#039;m not sure that it&#039;s all that important.&nbsp; For me, split on fonts that have serifs is a split serif.&nbsp; Splits on fonts that don&#039;t have them result in notching.&nbsp; I&#039;m not fussy about using the &#039;right &#039; term relative to RPM or DDO, but some folks will be...like Cent and Penny used interchangeably.&nbsp; All in the eye of the beholder I suppose.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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