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Bjones1309 New Member United States 22 Posts	Posted 05/29/2017 12:28 am This is my first post but didn't know were else to go to find out so figured the best place....... Coin Community lol. I ran across this one the other day at work and notice the S looked out of place or to close to the 9 compared to other coins of the same year or similar years. Could someone please help me on this one. This just doesn't look normal to me or is normal. If you could give me a link or were to go to check out this variety or error I would appreciate it very much. * Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. * Report this Post to the Staff

Adam_E Pillar of the Community United States 4846 Posts	Posted 05/29/2017 02:18 am Mintmarks were added by hand after the initial hubbing process, so you tend to see a very large variety of height, tilt, and size of mintmarks. This is why you see Repunched Mintmarks and Over Mintmarks. This just happened to be a little higher than you would expect, but it's still normal. Edited by Adam_E 05/29/2017 02:18 am Report this Post to the Staff
january1may Pillar of the Community Russian Federation 5179 Posts	Posted 05/29/2017 12:42 pm IIRC, the mintmark must be below of the date and cannot intersect it or touch the portrait, and that's about it. Those two particular cents are actually pretty similar. I've seen (photos of) 1950s cents whose mintmarks really were all over the place (up to and including almost touching the date). Report this Post to the Staff
Bjones1309 New Member United States 22 Posts	Posted 05/29/2017 5:19 pm wow I just really didn't think that was normal or at least a variety or something. I mean as many pennys I've searched that is the first one I've seen with the Mint mark that far off especially San Francisco Report this Post to the Staff
Conder101 Bedrock of the Community United States 17884 Posts	Posted 05/29/2017 11:04 pm If it is in that triangular area below the date and it isn't touching anything it's fine. Report this Post to the Staff
uruman Pillar of the Community United States 5193 Posts	Posted 06/05/2017 07:46 am , keep looking and you'll find a real error one of these days. Report this Post to the Staff
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