Bored so I thought let's see if I can find a mint mark touching the date on US 1 cent from the 1950's

The mint marks are all over the place on all US wheat 1 cent coins. And I found one about 5 years ago. And lost it somewhere. So I look for one now and then. And found this one, not there yet but getting there

All wheaty have high and low mint marks

So the game became what year can I find with the different locations for a mint mark. So far 1953
High low

high more under 5 completely under 5

Not only is the mint mark under the 5 It looks like a double punched D

God I need to get a life, I look at coins way too much

Απόσπασμα: "ALLRED1950"​ God I need to get a life, I look at coins way too much

​Or not enough

I don't know Neil I stop and think about it a lot lately . Iam a really bad coin hoarder , And working on that now.
But can not wait till Ed see this one. I have never seen a mint mark completely under the third number in the date

Looks like 1953-D 1¢ WRPM-001 to me
is it for swap?

Iam sorry what is WRPM-001

Repunched mint mark.
basically, the mint mark was punched twice or more into the die.

Yes I see now Yes it is Repunched mint mark. Not for swap yet

Here is a little something to help you with coin varieties.

http://www.doubleddie.com/

Yes have seen that one and the Lincoln Rescores site. I think iam just happy

Hello There have every seen the mint mark under the third number of the date?

I still consider myself a beginner numismatist (just over a year with coins) so I can't say if it is something out of the ordinary.
Sorry

well welcome to the coin collecting , Iam a big penny (cent) nut. This is my 3 or 4 repunched mint mark I have found. And still get very happy when I find one

Daryl:
The different locations and orientations of the hand punched mint marks tend to drift all over the place. None really have any significant value except the ones that are punched over a few times. Those are labelled as RPM's, Repunched Mint Mark, and some are even multiples.
I am rather a error coin collector and at one time I started to save all the coins with Mint Marks with really messed up locations but I realized that was basically normal. Some are almost into the dates, others are almost off the coin, others could be anywhere. As to alignment, I sometimes wonder where those Mint workers spent their lunches.

Oh by the way – YES - it is a
1953-D 1¢ WRPM-001 worth about $3.00

Who wouldn't, it worth more than a cent and is always fun to find. I have a couple pages of error and varieties in one of my binders.

Yes Ed I know they are everywhere But it sure looks nice

Απόσπασμα: "ALLRED1950"​Hello There have every seen the mint mark under the third number of the date?

Yours Mine You beat me by a little bit.
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Nice Ed iam still happy from the hunt. Iam still looking for the upside down S 1946 1 cent coin.

Thanks for sharing. I didn't even know the mint mark jumped around like this, I'll have a closer look at some wheats!

Yes David they are everywhere. And I get a lot of enjoyment at looking for odd ones. I think I lost my head there for a while. I just like finding something different
edit the penny nut in me ,makes me lose my cents now and then

Well close enough my quest is done for the night. Iam going to make a pizza an have something to drink
edit forgot image

time eat and sleep,have the night off God this what I do on my night off, I do need a life

I found a 1950 penny 5 almost touching the d

I just bought ten thousand wheat pennies and I don’t collect wheat cents. What was I thinking? Maybe I’ll search for crazy ment marks…

Dont forget to look for mint marks at a angle. And one of my loves. Ghosting.

 

on ones that are in good shape are harder to see the ghosting.

edit  you know this is an 8 year old post

ALLRED1950

on ones that are in good shape are harder to see the ghosting.

edit  you know this is an 8 year old post

Is your „ghosting“ a die clash error?

 No ghosting has something to do with pressure of the press. And the metal flowing in the die  Details are not sharp.

See the date and the lettering in the last image. Die clash

On this SBA dollar the last image you can see her noise and lips.Die clash  

But in ghosting It more of an outline.

The outline is not very sharp. I hope this helps daryl

ALLRED1950

 No ghosting has something to do with pressure of the press. And the metal flowing in the die  Details are not sharp.

See the date and the lettering in the last image. Die clash

On this SBA dollar the last image you can see her noise and lips.Die clash  

But in ghosting It more of an outline.

The outline is not very sharp. I hope this helps daryl

 

 

 

Cool thanks 👍 I will be looking out for ghosts in the future. Die clashes are one of my favourite error types, that and using old coins as planchets and minting a different coin on top, like the Italian 20 Centi or Austrian 5/10 Groschens.

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this coin on this coin

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Cool when you find them 🤩

Looks to me, that when you are minting so many of one single coin, you have multiple machines working at once. Each machine will have a different set of dies and some may be cut slightly differently, or the parts of the die may slide around after repetitive hits.

 

In the 50s the 3 main US mints were making at least 65 million pennies each per year (San Francisco 1954) and over a billion in some cases (Most Philly dates after WW2), so you are going to get a few duds here and there.