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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Speedy, post: 349144, member: 705&quot;]The Jefferson Nickel set is packed full of varieties. One of them is the Large Mintmark found on the 1941-S nickel. There were two types of mintmark punched used on dies for the year 1941 and the &quot;Large S&quot; mintmark was used for later dies. It is est. that less than 10 dies were produced with with this style of mintmark. Bernard Nagengast says that this style MM was used on all Copper/Nickel coins minted after 1942 at the San Francisco mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I first started looking for this variety I checked out all of my books and looked ath the photos and thought I could tell the differents. But not untill I had done alot more checking did I learn the best way IMHO to tell them apart with one quick look.</p><p><br /></p><p>When looing at the Small S you find that the S is notched just before the serifs, both top and bottom. If you don&#039;t find the notches than it is a Large S! </p><p>I&#039;m still working on getting better photos---the light soruce seems to cast a bad shadow on the lower part of the MM.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve outlined in RED to help show what I&#039;m talking about.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway---I hope that these photos help someone--- Comments or suggestions are welcome! These photos are getting ready to go on Varietynickels.com! Thanks to Bruce who sent me the 1941-S Large Mintmark!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>Speedy[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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