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Somehow the dang hole that this Penny fell out of resealed itself. I've been looking all night for a bag. I'm calling 311 and complaining.

 

Very interesting facts...
The West Point Mint Facility is a U.S. Mint production and depository facility erected in 1937 near the U.S. Military Academy in West Point,New York, United States. Originally it was called the West Point Bullion Depository.[2] At one point it had the highest concentration of silver of any U.S. mint facility,[1] and for 12 years produced circulating pennies. It has since minted mostly commemorative coins and stored gold.

US Bullion Depository, West Point, New York

History
As of 1937, it served as a storage facility for silver bullion and was thus nicknamed "TheFort Knox of Silver."[2] Even without United States Mint status, it produced U.S. coinage. From 1974[5] through 1986, the West Point Mint produced Lincoln cents bearing no mint mark, making them indistinguishable from those produced at the Philadelphia Mint.[3] The years 1977 to 1979 saw Bicentennial quarters and Washington quarters produced as well.[4] Approximately 20 billion dollars' worth of gold was stored in its vaults in the early 1980s (although this was still significantly less than at Fort Knox).

 

Yes I'm a wiki donor. Free information, free edumacation, freedom of speech. hoorah and god bless our constitution. I love it to the last word.

 

Wait, what? It's news to me that any of the Bicentennial issues (quarter, half, or dollar) were produced after 1976.

Apparently it's news to the mint as well.

 

I'm not quite sure what this means Jeff. Is there something wrong with the Wikipedia info?

 

If the sentence I quoted appears in the Wikipedia article, then yes, it's wrong. I don't know whether the West Point mint produced Washington quarters from 1977 to 1979, but I'm pretty sure no US mint produced Bicentennial quarters during those years.

Edit: yep, that's what it says, and it's wrong. The citation for that statement links to a US Mint page oriented toward young children (really, Wikipedia contributor?), and that page says no such thing.

If you're an active Wikipedia contributor, feel free to change it. I edited a couple of articles in the distant past, but gave up after some pointless reversions, and I've long since lost track of my ID.

 

Right I see it lumps the Bi's in with the quarters. The statement "The years 1977 to 1979 saw Bicentennial quarters and Washington quarters produced as well."... is not completely false. Now if it said throughout the years 1977 to 1979. I would agree that that was a false statement. It is a poor choice of words and should have been distinguished.

 

Proof reverse? What is a proof reverse? So which one did I get?

 

If it's false in one of its parts, it's wrong. It's also unsupported by the citation that claims to support it.

Changing it to say "throughout" wouldn't help. Bicentennial quarters were produced during 1975 and 1976. They weren't produced during any of the years 1977 to 1979.

Again, I don't know about non-Bicentennial quarters, and after visiting the (purported) supporting site I still don't. The paragraph needs to be fixed, along with its citations.

 

Today's regular proofs have frosted devices (the portraits, lettering, and so forth) on a mirror-smooth background. Reverse proofs have mirror-smooth devices and a frosted background (and, in my opinion, look incredibly stupid). Uncirculated coins have fields (and devices) that are prepared differently, and show more cartwheel luster instead of a mirrored appearance.

Yours looks like an uncirculated example to me, and if it came with a mint set, that's what it should be. I believe the regular proof sets come with a regular proof example, and the silver proof sets come with the reverse proof.

 

Right. It should say 1976. ??? Wth???

 

I have not ever seen a reverse proof. I'm looking now. You know if they're ugly they'll probably be valuable. LOL

 

I don't know it's not too bad on the standing Liberty but that is a beautiful thing no matter what you throw at it. the Roosevelt dime on the other hand does look very strange for some reason and so does the Kennedy.

 

Jeff I took a screenshot of the wiki editscript and it seems Bicentennial was inserted with some kind of Link??? I'm not too familiar with this

 

It just needs to have the dates changed from "1977 to 1979" to "1976 to 1979". West Point did strike 376,000 Bicentennial quarters in 1976, then they struck regular quarters in 77, 78, and 79.

 

here is some of the others mintages 77 & 78 for West Point quarters and on the other page it says 79 mintage is 22,672,000

 

053??? 0111??? What does that mean?

 

Those are footnote references where you can get more information. (You will note the 53 and 111 are superscripts, not on the same level as the 0.) Footnote 53 is "Struck in Proof only". Foot note 111 explains that these were bicentennial coins struck in 75 and 76 in clad and 40% silver proof and 40% silver uncirculated for collectors only, none for circulation.

 

I see. I had a feeling it was a referencce. Thank you Conder101