1946-S Roll Search Results

[ray_parkhurst]

I looked through my unsearched roll boxes and pulled out all the 46-S rolls I have accumulated over the past few years. I thought I had more...but had only ~6 rolls to look through. I counted the mintmark varieties, pulled out the nicest coins and all the varieties, etc similar to how I processed the 55-S rolls from previous search and will document the finds here over the next few days.

Regarding that previous thread, I thought I had segregated all the 55-S rolls into one group comprising the 58 rolls I searched. But as I looked for the 46-S rolls I found SEVENTEEN more 55-S rolls that need to be gone through. I contemplated doing that before I looked through the 46-S, but decided I needed a break from 55-S so went through the 46-S first.

Not to disappoint this time around, I have a few pics I took of the nicest toners in the rolls. I absolutely love the "shellcase" toning on BU cents minted near the end and just after WW2, and these rolls did not disappoint. Here they are:

[DCW]

Very nice images, Ray. Did you find any inverted mintmark s?

[coop]

Looks like coin #2 & #4 are from the same die.

[ray_parkhurst]

Very nice images, Ray. Did you find any inverted mintmark s?

Unfortunately, no. If I had, that would be my lead-in post!

[ray_parkhurst]

Looks like coin #2 & #4 are from the same die.

Yeah, they have those weird die scratches just in front of Lincoln's mouth. Sort of a Silence of the Lambs thing going on. I found one other coin with even heavier scratches there but I don't think I put it aside...

[rlmillerjr]

those are awesome pics, NICE

[jhcons]

Real nice ray. They look great. Jealous of the toners

[ray_parkhurst]

Thanks all for the kind remarks!

Continuing on, I pulled out the better varieties I found. A actually found a dozen or so RPMs of various types with SS MM, all with doubled upper serif and perhaps some separation showing on upper curve, but most are so LDS that they are not super interesting. This is something I have always noticed about 46-S cents, ie that I rarely find EDS examples. Perhaps all the rolls I have owned have the EDS coins picked from them? Interestingly, I did find one EDS coin, but it almost looks like it's LDS already! I know that does not make sense, but even the EDS coins I've seen don't seem to be hubbed all that crisply. Anyway, besides the various LDS RPMs, here are the other varieties I found more interesting:

1MM-031


1DO-001


1DO-003 (no photo yet)

DDO 6-O-II (no photo yet)

RPM-037


In addition to the above, I found an RPM I'm having a tough time identifying. It looks a lot like 1MM-031, but has a different lower "serif" and is very slightly lower. Here is a pic:

[ray_parkhurst]

OK, here's the mintmark tally:

Total Coins: 255
Trumpet Tail: 150 (59%)
Sans Serif: 70 (27%)
Ball Serif: 35 (14%)

Looks like I was fairly lucky and got a bigger proportion of Ball Serifs than would be expected. Now if only a few of those had been inverted...

[BadThad]

Looks like you found some interesting coins Ray! Thanks for sharing your results.