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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clinker, post: 424519, member: 6229&quot;]<font size="5">Do you own both United States 1945-S Mercury Dimes or have you ever compared the two?</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="5">Well, if you&#039;re interested, here&#039;s the regular &#039;45-S Dime&#039;s reverse:</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="5">Courtesy of Coin Page:</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="5"><a href="http://www.coinpage.com/large.php?tImageId=5680" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinpage.com/large.php?tImageId=5680" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinpage.com/large.php?tImageId=5680</a></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="5">And here&#039;s the Micro S reverse:</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="5"><a href="http://www.coinpage.com/large.php?tImageId=5682" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinpage.com/large.php?tImageId=5682" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinpage.com/large.php?tImageId=5682</a></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="5">Do you know how the Micro S got there?</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="5">San Francisco minted coins for the Philippines as well as U.S. coins. The mint had just finished striking 1945 5 Centavos and 10 Centavos coins for the Philippines (the last United States of America issues). Some of those S mint mark die punches were not used and were placed in a room where unused punches were stored until they could be returned to Philadelphia. Shortly afterwards the mint started producing more &#039;45-S Dimes and needed to replace a well- worn Mercury Dime S mint mark punch. One of the employees mistakenly went to the storage room and picked up a Philippines punch with the micro S mint mark. </font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="5">Here&#039;s a photo of a Philippines 1944-S (Same Micro S as the 55) 5 Centavos coin (courtesy of Coin Page) that you may use to compare the Micro S mint marks:</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="5"><a href="http://www.coinpage.com/large.php?tImageId=5429" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinpage.com/large.php?tImageId=5429" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinpage.com/large.php?tImageId=5429</a></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="5">If you have collected the Dimes, maybe you should consider adding the 44 or 45 Philippines 5 Centavos, 10 Centavos or both to your collection.</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="5">Did you enjoy this trivia?</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="5">Clinker</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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