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1942-S LWC, MMS-001 "S" Or Repunched Mintmark

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 Posted 09/13/2022  10:42 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add chgk1628 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
After soaked overnight,the real look of the MM and second look of the cent appeared.Please identify what's the RPM style of this 42S LWC? Thank you!

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 Posted 09/13/2022  11:27 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add silviosi to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
@CHGK: you have. After clean is clear. What attribution? No idea, they are mixt-up with this.
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 Posted 09/14/2022  2:21 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coop to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The area on the lower SW part of the mintmark is a damaged punch issue. The damaged punch issue is from the dies being already hardened, then when the die is punched to add the mintmark, it can alter the punch, damaging the punch:
1942-S--LWC,-MMS-001-

http://www.varietyvista.com/02a%20L...%201942S.htm
Note on the listed RPM's on V.V that other dies are showing the same damaged punch mark, but it is not part of the RPM. Your coin is from a normal mintmark die with the damaged punch issue. (not a RPM)

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 Posted 09/14/2022  6:41 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add chgk1628 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks for your details description! Mr Cooper.
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 Posted 09/14/2022  7:41 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Dearborn to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Ah! Much better looking coin - Love that acetone. A damaged MM punch? huh, would not have thought of that.. Very nice.
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 Posted 09/14/2022  10:51 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add silviosi to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
With all respect COOP I have to contradict you and show some 70 years old punches which I still use on very hard metals and work like new.

FIRST: The Wexler phot show an engraver working to engrave and not to punch an MM. Punch an MM will be never perform on the engraving ball which move very easy and will not be stable for the punching.

SECOND: The Dies are hardened only before go to striking presses. Never before.

THIRD: The punches are from 80% fine steel and 20% Silver. and will never broke or chip like the working Dies. Who come with this Myth it is just pure high imagination and not facts

Sorry but we have to recognize what it is and how the things work and goes.

I do not exclude a Die chip in this case, like I do not exclude also an RPM. VV do not show to much in detail of the MM. They find many for this year and is hard to find without a compare tables.
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 Posted 09/14/2022  11:12 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add chgk1628 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Very appreciate for your details analysis, information and opinions!
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 Posted 09/15/2022  1:35 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add silviosi to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Very soon I will extract and put here an document in which is state from the Mint the way the MM is punch and when. The folk say was punch on the Die which it is not true. The MM was always punch on the Master Die. In my previous post here I omitted to mention Master Die so please read Die =Master Die.
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