Definition: This entry is rather self-explanatory.  In this rare form of repunched mintmark variety, two mintmarks representing the same letter are so offset from each other that they do not overlap.  They are still relatively close to each other, though.  When one of the mintmarks is very distant from the other and is well outside the normal zone in which mintmarks are punched, we call this a misplaced mintmark.  A few examples of the latter are known, including a Lincoln cent in which an extra D-mintmark is seen protruding from the front of Lincoln’s coat.

A somewhat related die variety is the “dual mintmark”.  Here two mintmarks representing two different letters are punched in so that they do not overlap.  The controversial dual mintmark variety, Lincoln cent 1956-D & S no.1,  belongs to this category and can be found HERE.

The two 1956-D Lincoln cents shown above have totally separated mintmarks. The image to the left shows a faint D mintmark south of the main mintmark. The image to the right shows a faint D mintmark in the tail of the 9.