Hello all, While CRH a box of quarters yesterday. I pulled these two 2024 P and D Tallchief's. These are showing the die chip between the pony tails. A lot of these type of verities happen at only one mint. Like the die chip on top of George Washington hat on the reverse of Washing crossing the Delaware Quarter. That verity only occurs from the Philadelphia Mint. Not one has shown up from the Denver Mint. It was nice pulling one from each mint. Just thought I would share.
Interesting observation about some die chips showing up at one mint only. Since the designs of the dies are the same (except of course for the mintmark), I would expect that different mints would produce coins with similar die chips (of course in proportion to their overall output).
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That leads me to ask the question, are the dies for each mint processed at the same place or independently? If processed at the same place, why the difference then?
Nice discussion, I believe one would have to admit that the Philadelphia mint has more issues with these type of verities. They just seem to produce these types of coins. What do you all think?
The type, speed, and striking pressure of the coining press may also make a difference. Denver has been using Schuler horizontal presses for two decades. I believe Philadelphia switched to the Schuler presses more recently.
Here is a 2015 video of a Schuler press striking silver rounds at a private facility. This press apparently was purchased from the Denver Mint, and would have been one of the earlier Schuler models used in Denver. The current models in Denver have faster production capacity.
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Posted 05/02/2025 12:09 pm
