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Does anyone know of any west point minted coins?  |
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Valued Member
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Well..... From the early 70's through the mid 80's they produced Lincoln Cents. These didn't have a mint mark so you can't distinguish them from one minted in Philadelphia. They also produced many bicentennial and regular issue Washington quarters in the 70's. The first coins to have the W mint mark were in 1983 when they produced the $10 gold coin commemorating the 1984 olympic games. Then in 1986 AGE coins were minted solely at this mint. Then in 1996 there was a special Roosevelt dime produced there which had the W mint mark on it. But more modernly they have produced mainly commemoratives and bullion. Here is a nice pic of a 1996-W Roosevelt dime:  |
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Sure, they minted no-mintmark pennies for years, and they produce bullion coins there currently.
If you're looking for something bearing the W mintmark, you can choose from:
bullion coins
1996-W dime (available only in uncirculated mint sets)
The 2002 US Military Academy commemorative silver dollar carries a W mintmark
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Pillar of the Community
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I love my West Point dime, it's cool to see the subtle difference in the mint mark, your just not expecting it. I also have a "W" mintmark 2008 $5 Burnished AGE. The actual bullion coins don't have the mintmark, the proof bullion coins do though as well as the burnished or uncirculated coins.
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I wonder what the mintage numbers are for the 1996 West point Roosevelt dime are? It's not listed in the Red BookEdited by jasper62
06/28/2011 10:11 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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1996-W dimes have a mintage of 1,457,000
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Pillar of the Community
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WOW! That's a very low number compared to the other MM Mintage .Thanks for that info specksynder
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Bedrock of the Community
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It's a low number but almost all of them still exist in MS and it is more than enough to satisfy demand.
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Valued Member
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the pennys- why did they make them?
the dimes where made for the 50th anniversary.
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Strange, I was at West Point from 1975-1979 and had no idea there was mint there. And I knew a.bout the old steam tunnels, the "cave" and all the good fishing spots :-)
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Bedrock of the Community
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Because they needed more production than the Philadelphia and Denver mints could supply at the time.
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why is the west ponit mint at westpoint university?
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At the time Fort Knox was being constructed in Kentucky(1930s), the West Point Bullion Depository was being constructed in New York. West Point was basically meant to be the silver version of Fort Knox- Ft Knox stored the country's gold and West Point stored the country's silver reserves.
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