I Might Be In The Minority Here But I Do Not Like The P On The Cent.

Hey guys I just thought of something . what if they already decided that the 2017 cent is going to be the last cent made for circulation . Of cause they won't let this slip out to the public ,then a massive hoard by millions of people would take place . Maybe they figured the last Lincoln Cent should be slightly different ,so they put the P mint mark on it .
All other Lincolns minted will be proof only and in 95% copper .

As good an explanation as any. They would save a bundle by eliminating the cent. What does it cost them to make one cent? Two Cents?

Oh, the party I would be throwing if this be truth!

For the record, the P mint mark, I can take it for leave it. I might have voted against it if I were in the committee that made the decision, but I would not resign had I lost. Of course, I would have suggested putting it on the reverse.

Oops.

It was the autocorrect, I swear.

I have a different sort of OCD about this sort of thing. It seems so asymmetrical to have the absence of a mintmark denote one mint over all others while the other mints are denoted by their own mintmark. There is nothing special about Philly except it was first.

Yea, not a fan of the large "P".

The thing about coins not having a MM from Philadelphia always made sense to me. Not only was it the first US Mint, but at the time, it was the only US Mint, so there was no need for mint designation. I always just thought that a mint designation was needed for the 'new' mint locations, so that always made sense to me as well.

It's my understanding that the P MM was out on the cent just for 2017 because it is the 225th anniversary of the establishment of the mint, and because the cent never had a P MM, it's like a special 'commemorative cent'. So again, it sort of makes sense to me, even though it looks odd.

The shield? While the reasoning behind it makes sense, I find it to be an unappealing design. I think it would have looked better on the back of the dime. The torch and branches never made sense to me (anyone know their symbolic meaning?). TBH, the wheat stalks of the original LWC still doesn't make sense to me, but I do like it (but that could be due to getting excited when I see one, ever since I was a kid).

I think that for the final year of the cent, (which is the coin with the longest continuous obverse design usage) they should reproduce the first. So if 1918 will be the final year, make it a 1918 VDB Wheat Back. Put Victor's initials right back where he originally designed them to be. ANd only have Philadelphia and San Francisco mint them. How awesome would that be?

Hey, guys:

Don't get too upset, it's just a mint mark!