Question On Jefferson Nickels

you need to check your Red Book because I'm looking at it right now and it don't show a 1947 P 1958P 1955p I'm not saying its not in there but I don't see it it shows them plain no mint behind them thanks

Ya see, Philadelphia is the main mint so they didn't figure they needed to put a mint mark on the coins they produced. The others are kind of branch mints so for one reason or another someone decided that there needed to be some way to identify the coins from each mint. As the other mints started producing coins they put a letter on them so everyone could tell where that particular coin came from. I guess the RedBook classifies things the same way.

The folks on ebay can say whatever they want, they can advertise that a coin is a 1947 p even though it has no mintmark mostly so that people know which mint it came from I would imagine. They probably didn't mean that it has a mintmark if it doesn't, they're just making it easier for buyers to know what they are getting.

Unless you're looking to get an idea of what coins are selling for currently ebay isn't any kind of information source, it's just a big auction.

if it shows a 1947,1958,or 1955 without a mint mark behind it then that is the P minted coins. Most coins do not have a P on them when coined at the Philadelphia mint, it is just common knowledge that if it has no mint mark it is a P coin

thanks think I got it