Hematology reminder of my hobby!

[centMD]

Something reminded me of my favorite hobby in heme this week. Turns out that even the neutrophils in the blood can put out subliminal signals that my coins need me!

My personal thought is it resembles MMS-006, the ball serif, probably most well known for the inverted mint mark 1946-S, but I'd love to hear what others think as well!

Dan

http://www.lincolncentresource.com/San_Fransisco_Mintmark_Styles.html

[onecent1909]

WOW... is that for real?
What exactly is it?
And yes MMS-006 would be a good match...

[centMD]

Yep it is real. I took that photo with my phone through the eyepiece on the microscope.

It's a neutrophil (one of the white blood cell types) along with a bunch of red blood cells and a few smaller platelets.

Dan

[VAB2013]

My daughter is in nursing school so I asked her to take a look at this. She said she has seen some pretty strange looking things in blood cells, but never anything like this! How bizarre! This is very interesting, thanks for posting it!

[duece2seven]

Now THAT is a misplaced mintmark! Very cool, sir.

[jfines69]

That's is awesome... Now if the person that came from worked at the SF mint in 1946 punching MMs that would be even better I wonder if the person this blood came from was standing on their head during the draw

[Petespockets55]

WOW... is that for real?
What exactly is it?
And yes MMS-006 would be a good match...

I have trouble with these but is it inverted as well?

[Frank]

How cool!!

Either the MMS-006, or it's SUPERCELL!!

[Chugly]

That is so totally cool, Dan! Thanks for posting that!! Now get that slide in a 2x2 - !!

[centMD]

That is so totally cool, Dan! Thanks for posting that!! Now get that slide in a 2x2 - !!

I'm thinking it will go straight to SEGS. They will grade almost anything even peripherally related to coins. I'm hoping for "Peripheral blood slide with normocytic anemia and Lincoln cent MMS-006 appearing neutrophil." Grading will be tough. It's a nice slide but the anemia may cost me a couple points. Plus to be honest the neutrophil has toxic granulation. This all sounds like a details grade to me...

Dan

[jfines69]

I'm thinking it will go straight to SEGS. They will grade almost anything even peripherally related to coins. I'm hoping for "Peripheral blood slide with normocytic anemia and Lincoln cent MMS-006 appearing neutrophil." Grading will be tough. It's a nice slide but the anemia may cost me a couple points. Plus to be honest the neutrophil has toxic granulation. This all sounds like a details grade to me...

Dan

[Petespockets55]

I'm thinking it will go straight to SEGS. They will grade almost anything even peripherally related to coins. I'm hoping for "Peripheral blood slide with normocytic anemia and Lincoln cent MMS-006 appearing neutrophil." Grading will be tough. It's a nice slide but the anemia may cost me a couple points. Plus to be honest the neutrophil has toxic granulation. This all sounds like a details grade to me...

Dan

I showed this to my Baby Sis in Nashville who is a general surgeon, by way of Vanderbilt, (I'm trying to get her boys into collecting) and she got a good chuckle of your description of the grade, with me translating the numismatic relevance. Thanks for helping us to connect to each others "sheltered" world.