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Valued Member
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I have an older whitman folder that has a spot for a 1894 low S and a spot for a high S. anyone know what it means?
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Found this information from a previous posting about this. The topic was as listed '1894-S Barber Half - High S Vs. Low S?'. I will try to send you the link to that post.
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I'm apparently not slick enough to know how to forward a link through CC.
You could search for the old topic listing or maybe someone with better computer skills than I can respond with a link to the old post.
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Bedrock of the Community
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gmwatson, just go to the topic and copy the address from your browser. http://goccf.com/t/92830kennedy: in brief, this variety was no longer recognized after the 1950's because of the variability inherent in hand-punched mint marks. Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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10/29/2023 11:22 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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David Lawrence says "The so-called 'high and low S' are just degrees of many mint mark positions, common in all dates of the series." https://archive.org/details/compgui...n43/mode/2upI have no idea how it got to be separate holes in the old Whitman. Here's that CCF thread http://goccf.com/t/92830 that says it was in the Red Book until 1953. Somebody influential probably had two of them with the most extreme placements and played Let's Make A Variety. I recall an article in the BCCS journal with an overlay of all the different MM positions but I'll have to look for it; not sure if it was 1894-S or another year. |
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kbbpll,
Thanks for posting the thread, that was it.
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thanks, I had already found the older thread, but hoping to get any updated info, also looking for anyone that can post pics of different MM location.
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The BCCS article I was thinking of was actually for the 1895-S quarter, which has a more famous scarce "centered" MM position (probably a single reverse die), whereas most of them are to the right above the D. In fact there are multiple "S above D" positions. I'll post about the 1894-S half later.  |
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I poked thru some 1894-S 50c Heritage and Stacks images. There is a high S, more of a high-medium S, a medium S, and one where the S is rotated clockwise. There weren't any I would call "low." Perhaps there is one and it is actually scarcer than the others. I didn't feel like going thru all 400+ of them on Heritage. If anyone finds one, please post. NGC says "There are no varieties of significance for 1894-S. Many years ago coin folders included the High S and Low S varieties, but since all mintmarks were applied to the dies by hand such variations are now disregarded."  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Only a specialist in this series would be interested. I've got an old set of Library of Coins albums from late 1950's and only one hole for 1894-S.
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