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Why does it seem that coins are often worth more when they are from that mint?
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In general mintages are smaller, and years ago when they were producing coins for circulation it would take a long time for them to cross the country to where most of the collectors were in the east. This meant that finding any San Francisco coin in circulation was an unusual event. This gave the S mint coins a mystique, although a probably undeserved one.
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This gave the S mint coins a mystique, although a probably undeserved one.


- certainly undeserved
I have three San Francisco mint coins in my collection, and two of them are the only examples of their types there - 1941 Walker half and 1923 Peace dollar respectively.
(The third is a 1945 Mercury dime, and I have exactly one more Mercury dime in my collection - in a lower grade at that.)
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A California native, I favor the San Francisco mint because I find ot just cool that there WAS a mint in California producing coins for circulation. Ergo, my personalized collections list S, D, then P mints.
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Several reasons. One is since everyone knows that an eventual Earthquake will make California sink, all coins from there will be more of a novelty than ever.
Since California is so far away from civilazation, the gas used in trucks and cars to get their coins to the rest of the country makes them worth more.
That little S for a Mint mark has always been to difficult to read so a value on any coin that has a readable S is worth more.
They started making coins late in our history and finally just gave up except for proofs.
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