1921D JOH-15 "Sm. Breaks 6th Right Star,
D UNITED"
Discovered by Paul Pierce, Oct. 2002
(Desirability:
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Condition Census: 62R, 60S, 58R, 55R, 45R (Total: 2 MS, 3 Circ.)
JOH-15 has two small die breaks, one on the sixth right obverse star and
the other on the reverse at the top of the D in United. Unless examples with
much more advanced breaks are found, this will remain one of the lesser
1921-D varieties.
In the hunt for new 21-D die breaks, several coins were found and sent to
Leroy VanAllen for possible assignment as new VAMs. The coins on this page
were all determined to have features that were too insignificant to be
assigned. Jim Hart and I decided that we needed to label these coins to
determine if we have ever seen them before. We have assigned our own
numbering to the coins in the spirit of Leroy VanAllen - George Mallis (VAM),
here are the JOyce - Hart numbers JOH (pronounced "Joe").
Note that the images below approximate the coin's die cracks and are
drawn by hand. The thickness of the line does not necessarily represent the
size of the crack on the real coin. Often these cracks are extremely fine
and need significant magnification to be seen.
 
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