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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I have always lived in the northeast (NJ, VT, MA) and as such most of my pocket change is from Philadelphia. Denver "D" mintmarks aren't as common, but they're not unusual.
The prize has always been the San Francisco "S" coins. Whenever I find one, I treat it like gold and it goes straight into a special box.
Can I assume that people on the west coast were inundated by "S" coins when they were still being made for circulation? Is it hard to find Philadelphia coins in change?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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You assume correctly. I've traded boxes from the west a few times and S mints are very common there. The folks I was trading with really hoped to find a WAM in my east boxes because they're nearly impossible to find out there. I used to save circulated S mints because, like you, I rarely found them. I thought they were hard to find in circulation. However, reports from collectors out west say they find plenty so I started tossing the average brown ones into my junk bucket. The boxes I got from the west had 10-20X the S mints I get in my east boxes. So, toss them into the junk pile....just MHO. |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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I totally agree! I live about 35 north of San Fransisco and most pocket change and coins pulled from $25 boxes are D and S minted. Just oppisite of the east coast, it is not uncommon to find Philidelphia minted coins, they just do not appear nearly as often as the D and S as far as Lincoln's go. If my memory serves me correctly, the last $25 box I searched had a little over 100 no mint mark cents and 0 2017 P's. With, beleive it or not, about %60 of them from Denver. As far as other denominations go, I see about he same for D and P from when Philidelphia begin to put their mint Mark on the clad coins til around 2010. I'm assuming that it just takes time to migrate to the west. I bet in another ten years that the 2010 to present day will start to be more abundant here. Something else that I have noticed is that a large majority of errors with a good premium, I.e., DDO's DDR's and RPM's, that are posted here are east coast members! There is not much left to find by the time they make their way out west  |
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Valued Member
United States
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Well I don't see many S mint marks here, but on Friday I pulled a 1968-S Jefferson nickel from the take-a-penny tray at the corner store which completed my first 1962-1995 Jefferson nickel folder! |
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Well I don't see many S mint marks here, Where are you? |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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My aunt (deceased), who taught in Sacramento during the late '30s and early '40s, loved saving Lincolns, and a good number of rolls were eventually passed on to me. Probably three-quarters of them were S mints, and the majority were in high grades, many of which I still have - including around a dozen red and brown AU 1927-S.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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When I was 10 and started collecting, I lived in the northeast. I also prized the occasional "s" mint Lincoln or Jefferson that found their way to me in change and saved them. I still have them to this day.  |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Pardon me for asking Coinfrog, are you on the west coast? California?
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I've lived and collected mostly in the Midwest. There must be a dividing line to the west of me for "S" mints. A few years back when I'd save all the cents, it was rare to find a 1973S, the other years could be found and somne in nicer grades, I'd save even the most humble 73S, Denvers are abundant, we get OBW new D rolls in September usually, while have never come across a Philly OBW. Ir will all depend which region of the Fed you fall in, the reissue of circulation coins comes from a more localized distribution.
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Valued Member
United States
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I've lived in the southwest and then California over the past 20 years. I've definitely noticed that almost all my change is from Denver. Maybe 20% from Philadelphia, almost never anything from SF.
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United States
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Quote:Friday I pulled a 1968-S Jefferson nickel from the take-a-penny tray at the corner store which completed my first 1962-1995 Jefferson nickel folder!  Mintmarks! Congrats.  |
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United States
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I've lived in the southwest and then California over the past 20 years. I've definitely noticed that almost all my change is from Denver. Maybe 20% from Philadelphia, almost never anything from SF. That's interesting even considering that 1974 was the last year that the SF mint minted coins for circulation because I'm still finding a lot of 60's and 70's Lincolns with the S mint mark, especially from $25 boxes. Even the occasional wheat cents I've found in these boxes have had (about %15-%20) the S mint mark. Just lucky I guess.  |
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United States
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I lived in the Chicago area for my whole life until 3 years ago. While the majority of coinage was from Denver Philly coins were quite common in all denominations. I would guess about 1/3 Philly and 2/3 Denver.
When I moved to Arizona 3 years ago the Philly stuff here is almost non-existent. While I still find the occasional San Francisco penny and nickle, I rarely see any Philly coins.
When I was in NYC in December last year I finally found my first 2017-P penny, I still haven't found one in circulation in Arizona. I did seed a couple dozen I found in New York for others to find.
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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I live in Canada (Saskatchewan—the province north of North Dakota and Montana), and finding American coins in my change is not that rare. For the most part, they all tend to be from Denver, with a very small amount being from Philadelphia. I cannot remember ever finding a coin from San Francisco. Using the ATB Quarters as a reference, I have found a total of eight different ones of those in my change so far. Seven of them were from Denver, while only one was from Philadelphia. And a few of the Denver ones looked pretty much uncirculated. |
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 United States
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I've lived in Central Texas for the last many years, and it seems that there is a preponderance of D mint coins here, especially for brand new coins. As the coins get a little older, your chances of a P mint go up a bit.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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NW PA most of my life. Whenever we found an S mint mark - it was special and we saved it.
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