1960 D Over S ?

I think you have a D/D repunched mint mark combined with some Die Deterioration. The possibility of an S in 1960 is beyond the realm of possibility - althought I do agree the picture sure looks like one.


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See the following web site.

http://www.coppercoins.com/advsearch.php

wrongalot - The new picture makes it look less like an S and more like a D with subsequent die erosion. There is an erosion line between the 9 and 6 and several other smaller ones on the die face. Your die matches none of the coppercoin pictures - because of the angle of the surface flow lines - however, I think you do have a legitimate D/D variety.

Regarding the way they photograph the coins - I would bet they are shooting through a 30X microscope. The ANA sells a nice binocular scope made for that purpose.

A few things...

First, there are OMMs for 1956D - yes, D/S OMMs - and there were no S mint coins that year. An explanation of why an S punch was used is not officially given. According to the Mint, these do not exist, but we know better.

Second, I do a number of the photographs at coppercoins.com - and taught Bob how to do them. I use a 7.5X-35X stereo zoom microscope with a Nikon Coolpix 5200 digital camera, and a 180 watt halogen reostat controlled dual light guide lighting source. Altogether the equipment cost is around $1,200. Once you get all that together, photos become much easier. Unfortunately you can't get the quality we get with much less in equipment.

Third, and finally, I do not believe the 1960D cent imaged in this thread to be a D/S, but I would have to be able to examine the coin in person to know for sure. There are a lot of things a coin can tell me sitting under my scope that no photo could suffice to say.

Okay - maybe I should explain it this way as far as the S and D mint marks. For the 1956 Lincoln Cent, S seperated from the D and the D over S, the S mint mark punch was still present. The reason behind this is that some of the working dies for the 1956 Lincoln Cent were actually made in 1955, the last year to carried the S mintmark until 1968. However, this was not the case in 1960, where that punch had not been used in 4 + years. Sorry to cause any confusion.

WAVYSTEPS2003 aka BJ Neff

Every once in awhile I like to revisit something that sticks in my mind, as this one post does. Cleaned up the picture a bit and it now shows what the odd mark is.



More than likely, it is the begining of a die crack or a die scratch in two seperate areas that seem NOT to be connected. From the picture, I can not even see a RPM much less a DMM.

WAVYSTEPS2003 aka BJ Neff