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1970 S Nickels MM Placements Different

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 Posted 08/27/2010  6:25 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Dottir to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hi.

I found 4 1970 US nickels in a roll. 2 are D's and the other two are S. I noticed that the S mintmarks are placed differently. Is this normal or a variety for that year? I'll just show the Obverses side by side - one S closer to rim, one farther from it.

I scanned them at 1200 resolution, You can see they're very circulated and shows it.

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08/27/2010 6:27 pm
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They were hand punched into the die till 1990. Then they are part of the hub since then. So with them hand punched they can fall anywhere from die to die.
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So in other words, pretty normal variations. It's mindboggling to imagine someone tediously stamping by hand :D Thanks a lot Coop.
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I always wondered why they did that. Was one reason because all
of the hubs were only made at one mint location back then ?
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Correct and that way they only had to make one master hub. Then they only had to make one type of die. If one of the other mints needed more dies they didn't have to make any up special, just take some of the unhardened dies already on hand, punch the proper mintmark into them and ship them out.

The down side was the huge number of dies, especially cent dies for Denver that had to have D's punched into them. For example in 1983 they had to hand punch a D into over 6,000 cent dies. Is it any wonder they decided to eventually start having the mintmark on the master hub.
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