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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 1147598, member: 13650&quot;]I know there was no 1881-O $5 produced.&nbsp; I&#039;m afraid you don&#039;t understand what causes this phenomenon.&nbsp; What caused this is when a reverse die (any year since the rev. dies have no date on them) from the New Orleans mint was shipped to the San Francisco mint to be put into service there.&nbsp; The reverses are obviously the same but the mintmark has to change.&nbsp;&nbsp; So somebody at S.F. would take a punch with an S and punch the S over the O on that die and proceed to use it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; The buffalo nickel in my avatar is a MS-66 1938-D/S variety.&nbsp; In that case, a reverse buffalo nickel die was shipped from S.F. to Denver and they punched a D over the S.&nbsp; But the S still shows up behind the D.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; In the old days, all the dies were produced in Philadelphia which is pretty much the main mint to this day.&nbsp;&nbsp; All the rest are branch mints.&nbsp; They didn&#039;t have air mail back then so it was a rather long process to get one made and shipped from the east coast to the west coast.&nbsp;&nbsp; So in a pinch, the branch mints would share dies, as needed.&nbsp; &nbsp; I think the last MM/MM was on a Jefferson nickel in the 50&#039;s.&nbsp; &nbsp; They don&#039;t do it anymore so don&#039;t bother looking for them in your change.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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