One may found that the 1903 Straits Settlements One Dollar coin have 2 types of mintmark, which they call it incuse mintmark and another is raised mintmark.
The mintmark stated is a letter B that found near the crown of the King Edward VII portrait, so why they have this 2 kind of mintmark, first let us have a look how the raised mintmark looks like, here is a photo from the Heritage Auction website which they have the high resolution photo that we can zoom to the crown mintmark area and you can see the letter B mintmark is as below photo.
And I get another high resolution photo from Great Collection website, which we can zoom in to the letter B near the crown and it is looks like the below photo.
So why they have this 2 types of mintmark, which I can't really find a support story in this coin history from Google, but there are one collector mention that originally this coin is mint in raised mintmark version, but after that due to public complaint that the mintage company mintmark should not be a raised type which make it looks like more important than the crown which symbol the Royal status, so the mintage company have to change the mintage version to incuse B mintmark on this reason. But this is just the story I heard which I still can't found any supporting source, if any numismatic have the story behind this mintmark, you are welcome to put it under the comment.
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