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Harper's Ferry OMM Or MD?

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Just got this coin from the drive through and the mint mark immediately stood out to me. Thanks for looking and all advice is greatly appreciated!

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What you are seeing is Die Deterioration on the mint mark and the Quarter dollar. The different looped letters show it in the upper part of the device, towards the rim area. Just an aging die. It maybe that the die was polished and it removed the lower areas on QUARTER DOLLAR, but didn't remove the upper loops. You can see the die flow lines on the fields starting to appear again on your coin.
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RPM and OMM have been impossible since 1990. Before 1990 the mintmarks were added to the die by hand and any slight movement would cause an RPM. Now mintmarks are added to the die the same way the design and lettering are added.

Someone else could probably explain that much better than I can.
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Thanks for the info! So if I found multiple pennies with rotated mint marks that would just be part of the MM being added?
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Until the 1990 cents, the mint marks were placed on the die with a mint mark punch. These were hand done and could vary in locations/angles on the die. There is was also an issue with the mint marks have a spread between punches. Some minor, some major. But they ended that in 1990 with the mint marks being applied on the die as part of the design. We often get asked questions about some mint marks that look like a RPM. They are most often Die Deterioration. On some dies, there was a doubled die that did affect the mint mark. So after 1990 if they were actually showing doubling on the mint mark, they are actually doubled dies. I can only think of one examples so far that I know of where this happened.
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This is the only one I know of, but hundreds of times it is usually always been Die Deterioration or machine damage on those mint marks.

As far as OMM (Over Mint Marks) that no longer can happen after 1990. (the mint mark is part of the design)
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As always very informative coop, Greatly appreciate it!
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