Variety Vista 1941-S JN die listI am not sure how to proceed with this particular coin. I would like to determine the die match for this 1941 Large-S nickel. The coin is mint state and VLDS with developed markers. The list of 16 dies is short. Also, there are two Large S mint marks represented in 1941: the smoother Trumpet Tail which is also used for many years from 1946+, and the crude-looking jagged Large S with the triangular tail.
I believe this mint mark is the Trumpet Tail. Also, it stands unusually far above the building base. Most mint marks in that era were punched closer to the base. You can see that on most of the 1941 Large-S dies, there is about a half mint marks distance to the base. On this coin, you could almost fit a complete Large S between the mint mark and the base. So this should be easy. I thought it would be Die #6 for sure.
However, I have no marker matches. No UNI gouge, archway gouge, O of GOD gouge.
I have subsequently struck out on pretty much all other markers on the other die listings.
I do have large die scratches rising from the bridge of the nose, die scratches going from M of Monticello towards F of Five. So I thought that maybe #14 is a match. But the scratches do not start and end in the same place.
Identification is complicated by the plastic of the ANACS slab containing the coin. But it feels like the published markers are really strong, and would not be obscured by plastic or the VLDS. Am I just missing something? Maybe this is a different die stage for an existing listing? Could it possibly just be an unknown die, and I am chasing my tail trying to match markers?

