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Valued Member
United States
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I found a 1946 S wheat. It's not in the best of shape. I have looked online for images and what I have appears to be the garden variety S, not the S over D. What is acceptable magnification to make the determination, 5x? Maybe I am just missing it because I am not magnifying properly.
Sorry no pics right now, when I get home I will retrieve it from the "carboy of holding" and post.
Thanks!
--Moved to the Modern US Variety & Error forum by the Staff
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Valued Member
 United States
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I think the standard magnification is 10X for coins. Personally, I use 40X because that's my scope's max. I know you can use so much mag that you start to see things that aren't there. So what I'm getting to is that there isn't any one rule, but what works for you to see. What is probably more important is the lighting at any magnification. Hope this makes sense and is not too far off from what others think.
Terrell
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Valued Member
 United States
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I was using 5x, but I will try 10x. Maybe the coin godz will smile on me.
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Valued Member
United States
106 Posts |
Drats! I can't find it, the "magic Carboy of Holding" has swallowed it up. Someday when I go through it I will surely run into it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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You might have a better response in the error forum. Some of the error pros don't seem to get over this way sometimes.
Anyway, have you tried looking it up on coppercoins.com? They have plenty of pictures and markers that you can check to compare your coin to.
I hope you have one, they are hard to find and valuable. Even in F12 they are listed at $25.00.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The first thing to do is ensure you are looking at a serif mintmark, because that is the style of the S/D. If you have the sans-serif or ball serif mintmark, then you cannot have the known S/D cent. Second thing would be to compare the position of the mintmark with the photos on my site comparing the mintmark with the bottom of the 9 and 4 digits. If the position of the mintmark is not correct, then you cannot have the S/D cent.
If all else matches up well, a 10X magnifier should be plenty to discern what you do have. Look especially in the lower left of the mintmark for the 'connector' that makes up the vertical bar of the D mintmark.
Good luck - I have been through over 5,000 1946S cents in my time and have found only two of these. The one photographed for the site is one of those two.
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Valued Member
United States
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Thanks for the info coppercoins! I am rather excited about this. Great site btw. After reviewing the pictures, I really don't think I have one, but I just gave it a cursory look, so you never know.
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Valued Member
United States
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It's not a S over D, oh well. It was fun trying to figure it out. I looked at through both 10x & 15x and it's just a plain old S. Thanks for all the help.
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