New 2010 Penny

Heh, in Ontario (Canada) we find more Phillys than Denvers. Just if anyone's keeping score.

Received 3 2010 D's back from Carls Junior today finally!

West Point also minted cents without mintmarks from 1973 to 1986. These are indistinguishable from Philidelphia-minted cents.

You do not.

They did this on purpose. The West Point mint was only used to augment the Philadelphia mintage (and their mintage total was added to Philadelphia's). The number of coins minted there was very low compared to the Philadelphia and Denver mints.

Had they put a W mint mark on those coins, their low mintage would have resulted in the same hoarding that occurred with the relatively low 1968 to 1974 San Francisco issues.

I personally have found the new pennies in North Carolina, Virginia, and D.C.

You are welcome.

Generally, less mintages mean higher appreciation. Maybe some dealers buy 10 sets or so, but those get depleted sometime after they end sales on the Mint site. Then sets in the hands of collectors become more pricey as dealers ask for them. Less than a million sets means it is a limited release, so the mint sets are good collector items. I received my mint sets today, and I opened one. It is appalling that they send some scab coins in these sets, but you never can tell if you have a winner, because sometimes different errors are found much later in those sets. The sets are supposed to have a satin finish, but some of the quarters look almost indistinguishable from general circulation rolls I have opened. Go figure. The incuse edge lettering on the golden dollars looks like the first year Washington, with the "V" cut into the letter at it's depth. The stars have a flattened interior field that looks like a texture of some kind.
The package better than the old cello, and I got my sets early. Yeah! I don't see anything unusual about lettering in the quarters, and the block effect is also there. I think that's a machine effect, almost Machine Doubling, but that's for the experts to say. I am still wating for some word from Crawford on the doubling that I see in the quarters of Hot Springs and Yellowstone. I ordered my Yosemite rolls, I should have those by this weekend, and I will post any errors here.
Topcat has it right when he says "Buy what you like". I agree. If you want to make millions, coins may not be a way to do so. But what fun.