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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 24489565, member: 59677&quot;]Nope...</p><p><br /></p><p>Philadelphia is the original mint. Except during WWII (to identify silver nickels) they did not mark their coins until 1980. The cents have only been marked in 2017 for the 225th anniversary of the mint&#039;s founding.</p><p><br /></p><p>By law, the branch mints (modern<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> San Francisco, Denver, and West Point have always marked (most) of their work.</p><p><br /></p><p>1965-1967 during the cutover from Silver to Clad, the law was changed to allow the mint to use any of its facilities without a mintmark. It was changed back in 1968 for 1968 and later coins. Little known fact: the law allowed the mint to continue striking 1964-dated silver coins until sufficient clad coinage was available for commerce. The last silver quarter was struck in April 1966.</p><p><br /></p><p>The mint has used various facilities to make the bullion American Silver Eagles without the appropriate marks. It&#039;s made unmarked coins in San Francisco and &quot;W&quot; marked coins in Philadelphia.&nbsp; You may see this on TPG labels, but in part, it&#039;s guesswork based on handwritten markings on the boxes of 500 and some incomplete or inaccurate information from FOIA requests.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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