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Well I live in the exact center state in the United States (Kansas).
And how close are you to the exact center of the United States?  From Wikipedia: ...the geographical center of the entire U.S. is west of Castle Rock in Butte County, South Dakota, while that of the contiguous 48 is near Lebanon in Smith County, Kansas.I always wondered, if it actually exists, where the actual Philly-Denver distribution demarcation is. I cannot agree the Mississippi River is it. When I visit Chicago and Northwest Indiana, I come back with a lot of Denver coins. I also had an easier time getting Denver coins when I lived in Wisconsin, than I obviously do living in SC. IMHO, I think it is probably more of a "neutral zone" than a line. |
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United States
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Living in New York, I obviously get P coins first. The one exception my entire life has been 2008--I have a nice shinny Denver Penny but nothing else!
wierd...
--Gary
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United States
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I have a friend that lives in Arizona that keeps a eye out for all my D quarters and occasionally other coins, without here my D collections would be pretty dry.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Well in Missouri one bank I go to gets D and The other P
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...the geographical center of the entire U.S. is west of Castle Rock in Butte County, South Dakota, while that of the contiguous 48 is near Lebanon in Smith County, Kansas.
I grew up about an hour from here. I have actually seen the 'monument' at the exact spot.  Just out in the middle of nowhere off of a dirt road... |
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I noticed that this year the State Quarters were no available at any banks in my area, but you could buy them from the local shop if you wanted Denver mints. In indiana we usually only see Ps for a while and a D or two will trickle in, but it was the opposite here. The Monroe Dollars were the same way, but they were at the banks. |
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Banks in Michigan get their coins from the Fed in Chicago which is on the cusp -- sometimes D, sometimes P. Of the 5 Presidential dollars so far, banks here gave me 3 D's and 2 P's.  Jan |
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I live on the east side of the Mississippi from St Louis. It's very rare to find a 'D' mintmark in pocket change, unless the coin has seen some use. I sneak across the river to St Louis and meet a guy under the Arch at midnight to get my 'D' unc's. |
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Jbuck........ details....details.....details ! .......Heh Heh.....yeah I was referring to the "lower 48" spot, but that's also why I said the "exact center 'STATE' ". Because Topeka,Ks. is a bit away from there, but close enough when discussing "coin distribution". LoL Ha Ha  Believe me.....we Kansans know many little facts such as these about our state! There's not a whole lot here to recognize and observe other than corn, wheat, soybeans, and cattle. Although, luckily for me, Northeast Kansas is classified as "hilly-woodlands"....lush and green with lots of creeks, rivers, ponds, lakes, woods, etc..... And as far as that "imaginary river line" ....yeah I'd agree with you, it's maybe just a "zone" or something. I once got ALL PHILLY quarters from my bank......they received boxes from there and they were even remarking how rare that was and had never seen a "shipment" from Philly before on anything. Who knows what "zones" or guidelines there are to that. I just figure the Philly mint supplies one half of the country ("roughly") and the Denver mint supplies the other half.("roughly") ............................................................................ SeatedNut....... You ever been tempted to build a raft and go Tom Sawyering down the river ? .... And St. Louis isn't probably the safest place nor midnight the safest time to be pickin' up sacks of coins ! Hee Hee......I hope yer' armed ! LoL  You should try meeting at the McDonalds Arches instead of THE arch !....just lookin' out fer ya ! Edited by eaglefoot
03/12/2008 11:12 am
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Probably does make a difference. I wonder if someone contacted the USMint and asked that question what kind of answer would be made up. I'm in Illinois and can never figure out what is what with what Mint on the coins. Even way back when there was S Mint coins in circulation, around here it almost appeared as if the Mint passed out coins based on the weather, traffic, size of buildings, baseball scores and/or other important subjects. One year I'm flooded with all D's, the next year all P's. Back when there was S's, same thing. No consistancy around here.
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United States
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Getting away from mint marks a ninute.I live in a rural area in the east and last week searching penny rolls,20 rolls I found 23 wheat pennies.Next day 20 rolls 9 wheats .I believe thats a rather high average.
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I live in Kansas City. When I get new rolls of quarters or dollars from the bank, they are almost always D, but on two of the pres dollars, I got rolls of P.
I have also heard that the Mississippi is the dividing line, but I would imagine that it also has a fair amount to do with which territory of the 12 Fed Reserve Banks you are in. (Off subject - there are only 12 FRBs to cover 50 states. Why are two of them in Missouri?)
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Be carefull of indentifying those Presidential dollar rolls.....unless ordered from the Mint, the rolls are rolled by rolling companies, and it's notorious to NOT BE ABLE TO INDENTIFY "P" OR "D" without opening the roll.......and THE STATE IT WAS "ROLLED" IN MAY NOT BE WHERE IT WAS "MINTED" !! |
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Well I thank everyone for responding. I guess it's really that the mint delivers to certain states and that's it. I live on the East Coast and have few books with just a few coins missing and they are all D's... I'll have to go to the West coast just to get change! I do have one other question? Pretty much, are they evenly manufactured (P and D mints)? There is also a Lincoln Cent book I have where I am missing both P and D on a lot; just have the regular date with no mint marks.... I know S is uncommon for a lot of coinage. They obviously did a lot less in volume. Very hard to come by on the older coins. |
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Off subject - there are only 12 FRBs to cover 50 states. Why are two of them in Missouri?
Because we are "The Show Me State" and we wanted to be shown the money  Seriously though, I think it has to do with the fact that there really were no major cities between KC and San Fran in 1913 when the Federal Reserve was created. Denver would have been the closest thing to being a large city then but it was still much smaller than KC and less accessable to the East. quote:
I guess it's really that the mint delivers to certain states and that's it
The Mint has nothing to do with the distribution of coinage. The Federal Reserve purchases the coinage from the Treasury and it is distributed by the regional FRBs. FRBs that are west of the Mississippi generally receive Denvers and in the East, the get Phillys. The Chicago Reserve seems to usually get Denvers but also supplied from Philly at times as well. Edited by biokemist6
03/13/2008 11:39 am
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