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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2472771, member: 24314&quot;]SuperDave, post: Insider. I have little use for those who do not allow fact to influence their opinions.&nbsp; <span style="color: #00b359">Why make comments about posts you cannot see?&nbsp; I enjoy correcting uninformed &quot;facts&quot; that some members post.&nbsp; THAT INCLUDES ME (see doubled profile cents where what I learned in the 1970&#039;s was COMPLETELY WRONG and thankfully another member corrected me using verifiable proof.)</span></p><p><br /></p><p>If it quacks, it&#039;s a duck. <span style="color: #00b359">We say something similar about a few of our &quot;special&quot; customers <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie57" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />: &quot;You can lead a donkey to water, but he&#039;s still a donkey.&quot; </span>The mint mark on your coin is of the same size and in the same location as a Large S. It isn&#039;t shaped the same way <span style="color: #b30000">SO IT WAS NOT MADE WITH THE LARGE &quot;S&quot; PUNCH</span>!, although the PCGS coin I posted has hints <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie46" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> <span style="color: #00b359">(&quot;hints&quot; are only good for children&#039;s guessing games which a few posters are doing here.</span>) of something similar.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not declaring specifically what it <b>is </b><span style="color: #00b359"><b>I am, </b>TJ&#039;s coin is the small &quot;S&quot; variety.</span>, just that blindly calling it a &quot;Small S&quot; based purely on the shape is to deny <b>fact</b>. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie30" alt=":bucktooth:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> <span style="color: #b300b3">OMG!&nbsp; This is so wacko it does not deserve a response.&nbsp; <span style="color: #00b359">Question for our resident variety Ex-Pert: Does the <span style="color: #ff0000">SHAPE</span> of the Type 1 and Type 2 1979-S and 1981-S tell us anything about identifying mint mark types?&nbsp; </span></span></p><p><br /></p><p>In fact, right now the strongest hypothesis - the one which accommodates <i>all</i> the known facts - is that it&#039;s a previously-unknown mint mark punch as large as a Large and shaped like a Small. <span style="color: #00b300">Wow, a &quot;Discovery Coin!&quot;&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Don&#039;t hold your breath. </span>all the facts we have on your coin are based on relatively small and undetailed images <span style="color: #00b300">Which are good enough that allows any numismatist or KNOWLEDGEABLE variety collector to identify the coin has a Small &quot;S.&quot; </span> and aside the size of the MM there&#039;s nothing else I can base concrete opinions on.&nbsp; <span style="color: #00b300">So I guess this thread is done.</span> <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie60" alt=":kiss:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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