I would appreciate your help with this Mercury S mint mark question.

[jesbroken]

I would appreciate your help with this question. Of the three 1945 S Mercury Dimes 'S' mint mark, I feel 1 & 2 are trumpet tails

and that number three is a knob tail. Does that seem to be true in your views. Thanks for your help.

Jim

edited to add photo and caption:

I used this photo from the article to try to make identification, but perhaps I didn't do it well.

 

 

[Timely]

without question, #3

[Raybo55]

Hows about #4.

It looks like a combo of #3 and #1 and/or #2.

[jesbroken]

I was using a new hand held microscope and inadvertently inverted #3 mintmark which caused all the confusion. DIMEMAN ats discovered my

error much to his chagrin after wasting much time tryng to find why their was a difference, when actually all three photos are of the same style mintmark--a knob tail as previously mentioned in a post. Thanks DIMEMAN--truly sorry for the confusion.

Jim