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
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
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
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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
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.
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.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Yes have seen that one and the Lincoln Rescores site. I think iam just happy 
