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1989 D Lincoln Cent Offset Mint Mark

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 Posted 12/08/2019  09:19 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Tedpug to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
These are two different 1989 d Mark's. One has a vague mint mark and the other not. The difference is that they are in different locations. The faded mint mark I measured the distance from the 8 and the d (from pictures taken) the faded one is a over a cm and a 1/2 and the other is exactly a 1/2 cm from the 8 to the D mark.
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 Posted 12/08/2019  10:09 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Spence to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
@TP, yes good eye on this. Until I believe 1990, the mintmarks were added by hand to the dies and so there was a bit of variation as to where they were added. These examples show some of that variation.
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Ok thanks for your expert observation.
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The mark under the 8 looks like a flat gas bubble. The MM is within tolerance.
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But the answer to your next question is:
?Why are the devices on the date smaller and the mintmark is smaller on one coin??
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Because the die was over polished to remove some die deformity. Where a clash mark, die damage like Feeder Finger Damage, die gouges or what ever. When they are over polished, the fields are reduced. What does that mean? The fields are the outside of the dies. The bust/designs are deep into the die. The devices are about mid depth into the die. When the dies are polished, the fields are reduced. The devices (Letters/numbers) are tapered. Wide at the base of the devices, narrow at the tops of the devices:
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Note on the above image, the fields that are polished, removes the width of the devices. So on this die, when the fields were reduced, now for the rest of that dies life, all coins devices will be weaker in strength. That is what you have. A coin from a die that the fields were over polished so much that the date and mintmark was weakened.
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