High everyone
I came across two 1927 S cents that are interesting, one has a High S the other has a Low S, I have never heard of a high and low variety of this coin, has anyone else heard or seen this before?
What are your thoughts? is this a new unreported variety?
For most of the history of the US mint, the mint marks were placed on each die individually after the die was made. They were placed/struck into the die by hand using a letter punch and a hammer. Therefore, mint mark placement varies considerably, and this is normal. Mint mark size is a different story, and different sized mint marks are noted by the specialists in each series. Unless the mint mark is very far off from where it belongs, or touching some design feature that it should not, there is generally no difference in value. I seem to recall that in the last 20 years or so the mint marks began to be placed in some more reproducible way. An interesting sidelight of the hand punching of mintmarks is seen in the Indian Quarter Eagles and Half Eagles of the early 20th century. The entire design is incuse, except that mintmarks are raised above everything else on the coins, because the mint mark was punched into the die after the die was made.
Thank you all, this site is great! I'll keep looking for the next curiosity to show you all, and thanks for the Lincoln websites, I do like getting as much info as I can, a lot of this info is not in the common coin books I have
Status changed to Solved(Ringgy, 4 Apr 2019, 01:55)
