Silver finds pics with a question

[mfc83]

ok heres a better couple pics of the silvers from the other day boy the merc sure does shine up all i used was a little tooth paste.Ok i have a question about the standing liberty on the lower rgt side there is a M i have looked at standing liberty info but not seen anything about an m yet anyone know

 

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[park pirate]

The M on the SLQ. would be the designers initial, man thats one clean merc...

 

[Diggin-N-Dumps]

Very Nice Finds!!...And as mentioned...M is the Designers Intials....Its crazy someone just posted a question about the same thing about why there was an "M" on there.

 

[doninbrewster]

MacNeil designed the standing liberty quarter. FYI, whatever collector value there was to the Merc dime you polished away. Good thing it wasn't a 16-D or you would have polished away about $2,000 or more.

 

[Mackaydon]

As stated above, "M" =Hermon Atkins MacNeil Hermon Atkins MacNeil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAlso mentioned above is the fact that shinning up your coins will produce less value to collectors.
Don.....

 

[ModernMiner]

Congrats on the nice silver. The Merc design is one of my favorites.
-MM-

 

[mariposagold]

Nice finds. I personally, love to clean my silver finds, but one with such great detail like that, would have likely kept me from polishing it. Does the Reverse that that much clarity?