1927D Wheat penny Question

[drodda777]

I found both these pennies in the lasrt month. While looking through my wheats I noticed that the mint mark is in a different location on each of these two pennies. Is this a common this or is one of these an error or something?

Thanks for looking,

HH,

Dave

 

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[idahotokens]

At that time, the mintmark was hand-punched on each die, so there is a lot of variaion in where it was positioned.
John in ID

 

[Mackaydon]

Adding to Idaho John's:

"This is common. The Philadelphia mint made all the master and working dies for the coins. They were sent to the branch mints as needed with a designated mint letter. However each of the branch mint marks were punched into the dies by hand in those days. Positioning was done by eye, some were high, some low some upside down. And even many were double stamped when the worker tried to repair the positioning. These are called Re-Punched Mint Marks (RMM). "
Don.......


Source: http://en.allexperts.com/q/Coin-Collecting-2297/pair-1944D-pennies.htm

 

[AU24K]

Here's a good website....
http://lincolncentresource.com/index.html

Scott

 

[drodda777]

Thanks for the replies. This just caught my eye when looking at them both. Thought you guys would know though.

HH,

Dave