Is This 1980-D LMC Misplaced Mintmark Worth Keeping/Worth Any Premium?

See that triangular area below date from bust to rim? BULLSEYE! any where in there hits the target, that's the tolerance.

And no, I am not kidding, the hand placement up until 1990/91 has a wide tolerance, as long as it didn't intrude into any other point of the design, same on all coins.

There are some that are collectable. There is one Jefferson nickel that has the MM between the date and bust (I should know this...'70 something?). On cents, if it were actually touching the numbers of the date or the front of Lincoln's coat, I would call it collectable.

Below the date, to the right of the bust is the target area. Well withing the collect area. Angled a bit. But that happens as they are hand punched into the die. A few odd ones I've seen:




The last two are RPMs. so they have a premium for them, but the strange locations don't have a premium for them. They are just interesting.

Probably a Monday morning. Probably not. They don't look as close as we do. On this die in the LDS/VLDS die states the mark on the '9', goes away.

This RPM was probably only punched one time on the '9'. So it must take several punches to get the roundness/depth desired. Not just a one punch thing.

Something we may forget about the process. On the die, everything is is reversed. The fields are the outside part of the die. So when they set the punch into the digit, it wasn't like he was punching it onto that device. He was punching it into a flat area (the field) and it fell over the incuse device (9). Also keep in mind about the mint mark punches. They are reversed also. They are exposed to make a positive mark, but the design is reversed. So that is why they may punch into the rotated mint marks, the rotated mint marks. These are not like we would see on the coin. They are a mirrored punch. Food for thought. We often wonder things that we don't realize are different orientation to them. We just think of what the end product is, a coin.