The Re-Engraved Bowtie 1971-S LMC (Odv-028 & RDV-002, MMS-007)

@MAKECENTS: Do you want to kill me with this sky hypothesis of re-engraved an S coin after 1965? First for your knowledge: The San Francisco Mint do not have the facility to rework or produce Dies. All are done in Denver from 1965. 1965 till 1969 some was done in Phil but after NO. San Francisco can re-polish but not more. I have no idea from where you take those information's which for me seem to be only some busting false tools to but some prices.

The re-engraving Dies go till 1960. After very few was re-engraved. the cost for this operation was to high comparative to reuse other Dies.

You put a photo of 1960 and COOP of 1953 which could be legitimate or qualify for re-engraved Dies, and even there is very disputable legitims.

I thing we imagine to much instead to focus of the reality.

Please read my previous post here to understand what is involve in an re-engraving. the Mint will not pay for this when the cost of a penny production is 1.79 cents

http://www.varietyvista.com/01b%20L...rieties.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> br / Sorry, silviosi. I got my pics mixed up last night when posting on two different threads but is fixed now. The closeup is of the same coin as the new pic I uploaded just now, of a 1971 D that is re-engraved. I think I have a P too but will have to do some digging. Did you refer to the VV link I gave you? It shows that there were re-engraved dies for all three mints. Scroll down to ODV-028. LINK http://www.varietyvista.com/01b%20L...arieties.htm Then scroll down to RDV-008. LINK http://www.varietyvista.com/01b%20L...arieties.htm
You would need a nice example to be able to tell if it had the RDV-008 reverse though, in my oppinion.

Comparing the die states, shows that this die that struck this coin, was polished, probably to remove a clash mark, and weakened the bow tie. That is what you are seeing on your coin.

After directly compare with VV's ODV-027,I found Makecents-ODV-028 outline structure ratio looks almost the same as VV's ODV-027.

I certainly have to say Makescents matches VV ODV-028 pretty well, even to these old peepers.
The Re-engraving is easy to see.

Here were two different ODV of the1971 LMC that I found in my coin bank. In my view the Denver's variety was VV's ODV-028 and the Phil's one was ODV-027. Am I right?

Thanks for your information! Silvio.

I want to be be clear here: Was not re-engraved Die for this year, just re-punches working Dies. Please folks, we have to stop compare years with other years. VV it is a good start to look, but them show just they see not more, this do not mean could not be others things.

this coin it is a clear re-punch Die. Some will accept , others not. By Mint docs. was re-punched Dies in order to finish the production. That's is that' all.