1970 S Nickels MM Placements Different

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Dottir Pillar of the Community Canada 864 Posts	Posted 08/27/2010 6:25 pm Hi. I found 4 1970 US nickels in a roll. 2 are D's and the other two are S. I noticed that the S mintmarks are placed differently. Is this normal or a variety for that year? I'll just show the Obverses side by side - one S closer to rim, one farther from it. I scanned them at 1200 resolution, You can see they're very circulated and shows it. Edited by Dottir 08/27/2010 6:27 pm Report this Post to the Staff

coop Bedrock of the Community United States 62064 Posts	Posted 08/27/2010 7:25 pm They were hand punched into the die till 1990. Then they are part of the hub since then. So with them hand punched they can fall anywhere from die to die. Report this Post to the Staff
Dottir Pillar of the Community Canada 864 Posts	Posted 08/27/2010 7:29 pm So in other words, pretty normal variations. It's mindboggling to imagine someone tediously stamping by hand :D Thanks a lot Coop. Report this Post to the Staff
Indian1 Pillar of the Community United States 3640 Posts	Posted 08/28/2010 01:57 am I always wondered why they did that. Was one reason because all of the hubs were only made at one mint location back then ? Report this Post to the Staff
Conder101 Bedrock of the Community United States 17884 Posts	Posted 08/28/2010 10:43 am Correct and that way they only had to make one master hub. Then they only had to make one type of die. If one of the other mints needed more dies they didn't have to make any up special, just take some of the unhardened dies already on hand, punch the proper mintmark into them and ship them out. The down side was the huge number of dies, especially cent dies for Denver that had to have D's punched into them. For example in 1983 they had to hand punch a D into over 6,000 cent dies. Is it any wonder they decided to eventually start having the mintmark on the master hub. Edited by Conder101 08/28/2010 10:50 am Report this Post to the Staff
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