1861 S Seated Liberty Half Dollar Mintmarks

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sickpuppy78501 Pillar of the Community United States 599 Posts	Posted 10/31/2024 8:11 pm I've noticed there are two or three different mint mark styles for this coin. The one I pictured at the following link, http://goccf.com/t/472285, has a large mint mark. Then the pcgs website shows another with a small mint mark and then another that seems to have a medium-sized one. Are these different varieties? Edited by sickpuppy78501 10/31/2024 11:47 pm Report this Post to the Staff

Marv65 Bedrock of the Community United States 10529 Posts	Posted 11/01/2024 01:20 am Can you show any examples? I've never noticed if the S had different sizes. Could it be that it may have just been stamped in slightly different places on the die combined with die polishing to make it seem like different sizes? Report this Post to the Staff
John1 Moderator United States 56855 Posts	Posted 11/01/2024 04:43 am Research needs to be done to find out if the mint actually used three different punches. Might just be how the one punch was used or maybe even just wear on that one punch etc. John1 Report this Post to the Staff
sickpuppy78501 Pillar of the Community United States 599 Posts	Posted 11/01/2024 10:53 am On the one that I imaged for the other thread, the top of the S touches the branch. There's another one where the top of the S doesn't touch the branch. That might just be a polishing issue. I did, however, find one with a smaller S, which is graded by NGC. The label doesn't attribute it, but it's clearly a different style mint mark. Edited by sickpuppy78501 11/01/2024 10:54 am Report this Post to the Staff
John1 Moderator United States 56855 Posts	Posted 11/01/2024 11:05 am So,are you mostly talking about "placement" of the MM? John1 Report this Post to the Staff
Heymikep Pillar of the Community United States 824 Posts	Posted 11/01/2024 11:14 am The 1861 S Half Dollar had 5 different reverse dies that have been identified, 2 with medium size mintmarks and 3 with large size mintmarks with a total of 10 different die marriages identified to date. You can find all of the die marriages in Bill Bugert's Registry of Die marriage books found on the LSCC website,https://lsccweb.org/ Edited by Heymikep 11/01/2024 11:16 am Report this Post to the Staff
sickpuppy78501 Pillar of the Community United States 599 Posts	Posted 11/01/2024 3:11 pm Quote: The 1861 S Half Dollar had 5 different reverse dies that have been identified Well, that's pretty interesting. Report this Post to the Staff
Coinfrog Bedrock of the Community United States 94367 Posts	Posted 11/01/2024 4:07 pm Good info indeed, thanks @Heymikep. Report this Post to the Staff
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