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 Posted 09/23/2015  12:08 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CopperCastle to your friends list

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In other words, other than proof or commemorative

Some UNC American Eagles bear the "W" MM. Although not proof or commemerative...hardly a circulation coin.
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 Posted 09/23/2015  12:15 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Numisma to your friends list

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People started hoarding S-mint coins when they came out in 1968 because that mint had been shut down for 13 years do renovations.

I still find tons of the 68- late 70's cents in circulation here in Washington.
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 Posted 09/23/2015  12:17 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Numisma to your friends list
By the way, Stephen Z, if you do not already own a copy of the Red Book, you ought to get one. You can find all sorts of information like this in it, and the spiral bound version is fairly inexpensive. I use mine so much that my 2015 softcover is already falling apart.
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 Posted 09/23/2015  02:19 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CalzoneManiac to your friends list
I found a '72S on the ground a few weeks ago.
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 Posted 09/23/2015  07:17 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add n9jig to your friends list
Occasionally a 1996-W dime pops up in circulation, broken out of a mint set. This is the most likely coin with the "W" mint mark to show up, but it is extremely unusual for it to happen.

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 Posted 09/27/2015  10:11 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Stephen Z to your friends list
Thanks everyone. Maybe some day W will join P, D, S, O, and CC in having issued non-gold coins for circulation.
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 Posted 09/28/2015  12:48 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add shadz to your friends list
What is wrong with the missing letter that only did gold coins? it was a C for coins as in CRH coin roll hunting or in CCF coin community forums (though you have CC and only need an F. How about Fresno? Who even goes to Fresno?), after all. Not their fault the government decided not to continue and they are now just a FRB branch for Richmond.
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 Posted 09/28/2015  02:10 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Mayflower2020 to your friends list

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but ya never know next year they may start the W mint BU ATB quarters


They probably will in 2021 in the final year of of the series just to screw up the Dansco Albums.

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 Posted 09/29/2015  12:03 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CelticKnot to your friends list

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but ya never know next year they may start the W mint BU ATB quarters

They'd be Enhanced Uncirculated, silly.
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 Posted 09/29/2015  3:44 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Stephen Z to your friends list
You could make a nice set of dimes, at not much cost, 6 coins from 6 mints. The 1996W dime would be included plus of course any date of P, S, O, CC, and D.
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 Posted 09/29/2015  5:46 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Numisma to your friends list

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What is wrong with the missing letter that only did gold coins? it was a C for coins as in CRH coin roll hunting or in CCF coin community forums (though you have CC and only need an F. How about Fresno? Who even goes to Fresno?), after all. Not their fault the government decided not to continue and they are now just a FRB branch for Richmond.

You mentioned C for Charlotte, but don't forget D for Dahlonega. They also only struck gold coins.
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 Posted 09/29/2015  5:50 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add shadz to your friends list
The problem with Georgia is that its mintmark was usurped by Colorado and now the D stands for Denver. There can be only 1! We still have the D mintmark, even if it is a different mint. So the D isn't missing nor forgotten. Just nobody would remember what it stood for because nobody can pronounce it!
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 Posted 09/29/2015  11:03 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add perfessor to your friends list
When I first heard years ago that circulating coins were minted at West Point but no mint mark was used, I was mad. I am not mad anymore, but if they made any circulation coins there now, they would have to put a mint mark on them or they would stand out because there was no mint mark. An interesting thought. I wouldn't be surprised if the mint decided to make quarters with a W mint mark (in rolls only for a premium, of course). They have done strange things before.
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