1944S Walking Liberty Half Inverted Shifted Mint Mark

[errorist]

Found what appears to be a inverted shifted right S mint mark. Placed one coin on top of the other to compare..  Any thoughts on this? 

[Mohawk]

Errorist,

It's hard to tell from the photos you have posted of the one coin, they're quite blurry, but I don't think you have an inverted or shifted mint mark.  I think you have two different mint mark styles.  There were two different S mint marks used on Walking Liberty Halves in 1944.  Here's a link to them:

http://www.varietyvista.com/10 Walking Liberty Halves/San Francisco Mintmark Styles.htm

I think you have one coin which is the trumpet tail S and one which is the straight serif S.

Like I said, it's hard to tell with the blurry photos of the one mint mark, but that's my theory based on the available information.

 

[errorist]

Neat information there about the Trumpet Tail Mohawk. Didn't know that. The one that is closer to the design has me stumped.. It looks inverted and tilted to me.. I have both coins on top of one another in this image. Clearly one is further out in field the other..

[Mohawk]

58 minutes ago, errorist said:

Neat information there about the Trumpet Tail Mohawk. Didn't know that. The one that is closer to the design has me stumped.. It looks inverted and tilted to me.. I have both coins on top of one another in this image. Clearly one is further out in field the other..

Like I said before, I cannot really tell much from that photo of the top coins.....it's quite blurry.  If you could get a better photo, maybe I could tell you more but I've done all I can with that photo.

[Just Bob]

When you consider that the mint marks were punched into the working die by hand, using a punch and mallet, it is easy to imagine the occasional mark straying from its expected location. 

[errorist]

Looks inverted also...

[Just Bob]

I can see where that would be possible, too, especially if the punch was not marked "This Side Up".

Claymore Anti-personel mines are marked "THIS SIDE TOWARD ENEMY." Sometimes, we need all the help we can get.

[DWLange]

It's the same mintmark punch in each photo. The one that appears odd just suffered some contact from another coin or some other object and was smeared a bit.