1942-S LWC, MMS-001 "S" Or Repunched Mintmark

Try soaking it in acetone over night and using a soft thorn to remove the gunk in the MM, then have a second look at it.

Thanks for your helpful suggestions & opinions!

Thanks for your reminding! Mr Cooper.

I think that's the another very good suggestion. Thank you very much!

@CHGK: you have. After clean is clear. What attribution? No idea, they are mixt-up with this.

Thanks for your details description! Mr Cooper.

With all respect COOP I have to contradict you and show some 70 years old punches which I still use on very hard metals and work like new.

FIRST: The Wexler phot show an engraver working to engrave and not to punch an MM. Punch an MM will be never perform on the engraving ball which move very easy and will not be stable for the punching.

SECOND: The Dies are hardened only before go to striking presses. Never before.

THIRD: The punches are from 80% fine steel and 20% Silver. and will never broke or chip like the working Dies. Who come with this Myth it is just pure high imagination and not facts

Sorry but we have to recognize what it is and how the things work and goes.

I do not exclude a Die chip in this case, like I do not exclude also an RPM. VV do not show to much in detail of the MM. They find many for this year and is hard to find without a compare tables.

Very soon I will extract and put here an document in which is state from the Mint the way the MM is punch and when. The folk say was punch on the Die which it is not true. The MM was always punch on the Master Die. In my previous post here I omitted to mention Master Die so please read Die =Master Die.