Going though some coins around the house today I found this...1950 S which maybe also maybe an omm as the 1950 There wers two omm's 1950 D/S as well an 1950 S/D now what strange is this quarter has luster under a matt camo finish, not a sharp bright shiny strikr ,but a softer, detail,matte finish that shows bright luster under the camo. The marks on the face are yes hits however more a scrape in the camo , they look worse in the image than in hand. The huge die scratch behind the head,as well the die crack in wing ,and scalp, are die markers. Any thoughts on the mint mark ? RPM /OMM ?
The RPM in the CPG (RPM 001) is to the north so I don't think it matches. For the OMM-001 it says the D is clearly visible beneath the S...plus it talks about the frosty surfaces...it doesn't quite match...looks close...but I don't know for sure. Picture for educational purposes only.
I'm not sure that it's a RPM. I see a lot of this in the S mint marks of Washington Quarters from the mid-1940's through the mid-1950's. It looks like the edges of the die chipped away around the mint mark.
No the D really pops on the S/D. It's especially obvious like the 1938-D/S Buffalo. I have looked at a lot of mm's on Washington Quarters, and this look is very common for the S mm of this time period.
Really looking at the image below, it almost looks like it could be a S/s. Like a mm designed for use on the dimes was accidentally used on the quarter, so they tried to remove it and then punched it with the correct size mm. The size of the underlying mm looks like it would have to be similar in size to the micro one used on the 1945-S micro S Mercury Dime.
Here is a side by side of the possible S/S scenario. This is the mm taken from a 1950-S dime. I am not familiar with the exact measurements of both mint marks. Notice that hump between the bottom of the top serif and trunk of the s looks like it could be remnants of the underlying smaller S.
