Does anyone know if there is a way to determine on any cent if it may have been made at the West Point facility. I have been thinking of putting together a type set of coins struck at the West Point mint, but as far as I know there is no way to tell if a particular cent was made at West Point or Philadelphia. If anyone knows of any particular year that may have a die marker, etc. that would make it possible to determine this it would be much appreciated. Thanks, Doug
Ask NGC. They have an ability to distinguish between bullion ASE's minted at West Point or San Fran.......
The whole reason for mint marks is to designate where the coin was made. Why are they straying from that formula on some coins, and not on others??? When it comes to NGC and the SF ASEs, I bet they are only doing it with shipping labels on the green boxes that are sent to them unopened. If you send them an ASE/ASEs that are not in an unopened green monster box, they won't designate them as S mint. That is my guess anyway.
Slightly off-topic, but... if they're minting coins at the West Point mint, why don't they mark them with "W"? I know they sometimes have done this, but why not always?
I had some once. West Point struck zinc ones while Philadelphia was still doing copper. I had loads of them from the bank in that interim period. I should have made up some PNC's to document this, but I didn't. BRAINSTORM! Philadelphia made both large date and small date 1982 copper cents. That means the die change came before they switched to zincs. Now it was the large date that came first? That means that all large date no mintmark zinc 1982 cents are from West Point.
Very nice deduction! I think NGC needs to create a special slab to note the (W) mint mark for the 1982 cents. Got Zinc? TC
